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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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PRE'MIUM, n. [L.] Properly, a reward or recompense; a prize to be won by competition; the reward or prize to be adjudged to the best performance or production.
A reward or recompense; a prize to be won by being before
another, or others, in a competition; reward or prize to be adjudged;
a bounty; as, a premium for good behavior or scholarship, for
discoveries, etc.
To think it not the necessity, but the premium and privilege of life, to eat and sleep without any regard to glory. Burke. The law that obliges parishes to support the poor offers a premium for the encouragement of idleness. Franklin. Something offered or given for the loan of
money; bonus; -- sometimes synonymous with interest, but
generally signifying a sum in addition to the capital.
People were tempted to lend, by great premiums and large interest. Swift. A sum of money paid to underwriters for
insurance, or for undertaking to indemnify for losses of any
kind.
A sum in advance of, or in addition to, the
nominal or par value of anything; as, gold was at a premium; he
sold his stock at a premium.
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