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LES'SON, n. les'n. [L. lectio, from lego, to read.]

1. Any thing read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner for improvement; or such a portion of a book as a pupil learns and repeats at one time. The instructor is pleased when his pupils recite their lessons with accuracy and promptness.

2. A portion of Scripture read in divine service. Thus endeth the first lesson.

3. A portion of a book or manuscript assigned by a preceptor to a pupil to be learnt, or for an exercise; something to be learnt. Give him his lesson.

4. Precept; doctrine or notion inculcated.

Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, and teach her not an evil lesson against thyself.

5. Severe lecture; reproof; rebuke.

She would give her a lesson for walking so late.

6. Tune written for an instrument.

7. Instruction or truth, taught by experience. The lessons which sickness imparts, she leaves to be practiced when health is established.

LES'SON, v.t. les'n. To teach; to instruct.

Children should be lessoned into a contempt and detestation of this vice.
1913 Definition
Lesson (lesson)
n.(l1913 webster dictionarys"s'n)
Les"son
[OE. lessoun, F. leçon lesson, reading, fr. L. lectio a reading, fr. legere to read, collect. See Legend, and cf. Lection.]
  1. Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one time.
  2. That which is learned or taught by an express effort; instruction derived from precept, experience, observation, or deduction; a precept; a doctrine; as, to take or give a lesson in drawing.
    " A smooth and pleasing lesson." Milton.

    Emprinteth well this lesson in your mind. Chaucer.

  3. A portion of Scripture read in divine service for instruction; as, here endeth the first lesson.
  4. A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.

    She would give her a lesson for walking so late. Sir. P. Sidney.

  5. An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
  6. To teach] to instruct.
    Shak.

    To rest the weary, and to soothe the sad,
    Doth lesson happier men, and shame at least the bad.
    Byron.


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When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.
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