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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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PHAL'ANX, n. In Grecian antiquity, a square battalion or body of soldiers, formed in ranks and files close and deep, with their shields joined and pikes crossing each other, so as to render it almost impossible to break it. The Macedonian phalanx, celebrated for its force, consisted of 8000 men; but smaller bodies of soldiers were called by the same name.
A body
of heavy-armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep.
There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in
depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men.
"In cubic
phalanx firm advanced." Milton.
The Grecian phalanx, moveless as a tower. Pope. Any body of troops or men formed in close
array, or any combination of people distinguished for firmness and
solidity of a union.
At present they formed a united phalanx. Macaulay. The sheep recumbent, and the sheep that grazed, A Fourierite community; a
phalanstery.
One of the digital bones of
the hand or foot, beyond the metacarpus or metatarsus; an
internode.
A group or bundle of stamens, as in polyadelphous
flowers.
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