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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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OVERSET', v.t
OVERSET', v.i. To turn or be turned over; to turn or fall off the basis or bottom. A crank vessel is liable to overset.
To turn or tip
(anything) over from an upright, or a proper, position so that it
lies upon its side or bottom upwards] to upset; as, to overset
a chair, a coach, a ship, or a building.
Dryden. To cause to fall, or to tail; to subvert;
to overthrow; as, to overset a government or a plot.
Addison. To fill too full.
[Obs.]
Howell. To turn, or to
be turned, over; to be upset.
Mortimer. An upsetting; overturn; overthrow; as, the overset of a
carriage.
An excess; superfluity.
[Obs.] "This
overset of wealth and pomp. " Bp. Burnel. | ||||||||