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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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PEN'SIONER, n. One to whom an annual sum of money is paid by government in consideration of past services.
One in receipt of a pension; hence, figuratively, a
dependent.
The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. Milton. Old pensioners . . . of Chelsea Hospital. Macaulay. One of an honorable band of gentlemen who
attend the sovereign of England on state occasions, and receive an
annual pension, or allowance, of 𧵎 and two horses.
In the
university of Cambridge, England, one who pays for his living in
commons; -- corresponding to commoner at Oxford.
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