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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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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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1828 Definition
PLUNGE, v.t.
PLUNGE, v.i. To pitch; to thrust or drive one's self into water or a fluid; to dive or to rush in. He plunged into the river.
PLUNGE, n. The act of thrusting into water or any penetrable substance.
1913 Definition
To
thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable] to
immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to
thrust; as, to plunge the body into water; to plunge a
dagger into the breast. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge
a nation into war.
"To plunge the boy in pleasing sleep."
Dryden.
Bound and plunged him into a cell. Tennyson. We shall be plunged into perpetual errors. I. Watts. To baptize by immersion.
To entangle; to embarrass; to
overcome.
[Obs.]
Plunged and graveled with three lines of Seneca. Sir T. Browne. To
thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to submerge one's
self; to dive, or to rush in; as, he plunged into the river.
Also used figuratively; as, to plunge into debt.
Forced to plunge naked in the raging sea. Dryden. To plunge into guilt of a murther. Tillotson. To pitch or throw one's self headlong or
violently forward, as a horse does.
Some wild colt, which . . . flings and plunges. Bp. Hall. To bet heavily and with seeming
recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to
risk large sums in hazardous speculations.
[Cant]
Plunging fire (Gun.), firing directed upon an enemy from an elevated position. The
act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch
into, or as into, water; as, to take the water with a
plunge.
Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state
of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties.
[R.]
She was brought to that plunge, to conceal her husband's murder or accuse her son. Sir P. Sidney. And with thou not reach out a friendly arm, The act of pitching or throwing one's self
headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing;
hazardous speculation.
[Cant]
Plunge bath, an immersion by plunging; also, a large bath in which the bather can wholly immerse himself. -- Plunge, or plunging, battery (Elec.), a voltaic battery so arranged that the plates can be plunged into, or withdrawn from, the exciting liquid at pleasure. | ||||||||
