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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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NAUGHT, n. Nothing.
NAUGHT, adv. In no degree
NAUGHT, a. Bad; worthless; of no value or account.
Nothing.
[Written also
nought.]
Doth Job fear God for naught? Job i. 9. The arithmetical character 0; a cipher.
See Cipher.
To set at naught, to treat as of no account; to disregard; to despise; to defy; to treat with ignominy. "Ye have set at naught all my counsel." Prov. i. 25. In no degree; not at
all.
Chaucer.
To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied. Fairfax. Of
no value or account; worthless; bad; useless.
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer. Prov. xx. 14. Go, get you to your house; begone, away! Things naught and things indifferent. Hooker. Hence, vile; base; naughty.
[Obs.]
No man can be stark naught at once. Fuller. | ||||||||