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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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PILL'AGE, n.
PILL'AGE, v.t. To strip of money or goods by open violence; as, troops pillage the camp or towns of an enemy; to plunder; to spoil. It differs from stealing, as it implies open violence,and from robbery, which may be committed by one individual on another; whereas pillaging is usually the act of bands or numbers. To pillage and to rob are however sometimes used synonymously.
The
act of pillaging; robbery.
Shak. That which is taken from another or others
by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder;
spoil; booty.
Which pillage they with merry march bring home. Shak. Syn. -- Plunder; rapine; spoil; depredation. -- Pillage, Plunder. Pillage refers particularly to the act of stripping the sufferers of their goods, while plunder refers to the removal of the things thus taken; but the words are freely interchanged. To strip of money or goods by open
violence] to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage
the camp of an enemy.
Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city. Arbuthnot. To take spoil; to
plunder; to ravage.
They were suffered to pillage wherever they went. Macaulay. | ||||||||