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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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LI'BEL, n. [L. libellus, a little book, from liber, a book, from the sense of bark, and this from stripping separating. Hence liber, a book, and liber, free, are the same word.]
LI'BEL, v.t.
LI'BEL, v.i. To spread defamation, written or printed; with against. He libels against the peers of the realm. [Not now in use.]
A brief writing of any kind, esp. a
declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.
[Obs.] Chaucer.
A libel of forsaking [divorcement]. Wyclif (Matt. v. 31). Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a
satire.
A malicious publication
expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or
other signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or
ridicule. Such publication is indictable at common law.
* The term, in a more extended sense, includes the publication of such writings, pictures, and the like, as are of a blasphemous, treasonable, seditious, or obscene character. These also are indictable at common law. The crime of issuing a
malicious defamatory publication.
A
written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of his cause of
action, and of the relief he seeks.
To defame, or expose to
public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, by a writing, picture, sign,
etc.] to lampoon.
Some wicked wits have libeled all the fair. Pope. To proceed against by filing
a libel, particularly against a ship or goods.
To spread defamation, written or printed; -- with
against.
[Obs.]
What's this but libeling against the senate? Shak. [He] libels now 'gainst each great man. Donne. | ||||||||