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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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PLUMP, a.
PLUMP, n. A knot; a cluster; a clump; a number of things closely united or standing together; as a plump of trees; a plump of fowls; a plump of horsemen.
[This word is not now used in this sense, but the use of it formerly, is good evidence that plump is clump, with a different prefix, and both are radically one word with lump. Plumb, L. plumbum, is the same word, a lump or mass.
PLUMP, v.t. [from the adjective.] To swell; to extend to fullness; to dilate; to fatten.
PLUMP, v.i.
PLUMP, adv. Suddenly; heavily; at once, or with a sudden heavy fall.
Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy;
fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks.
Shak.
The god of wine did his plump clusters bring. T. Carew. A knot; a cluster; a
group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or
spears.
[Obs.]
To visit islands and the plumps of men. Chapman. To grow
plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.
To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at
once.
"Dulcissa plumps into a chair."
Spectator. To give a plumper. See
Plumper, 2.
To make plump] to fill (out)
or support; -- often with up.
To plump up the hollowness of their history with improbable miracles. Fuller. To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly
and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water.
To give (a vote), as a plumper. See
Plumper, 2.
Directly] suddenly; perpendicularly.
"Fall
plump." Beau. *** Fl. Done or made plump,
or suddenly and without reservation; blunt; unreserved; direct;
downright.
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