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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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PROSECU'TION, n. The act or process of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design or undertaking; the prosecution of war or of commerce; the prosecution of a work, study, argument or inquiry.
The act or
process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish
something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as, the
prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the
prosecution of war.
Keeping a sharp eye on her domestics . . . in prosecution of their various duties. Sir W. Scott. The
institution and carrying on of a suit in a court of law or equity, to
obtain some right, or to redress and punish some wrong; the carrying
on of a judicial proceeding in behalf of a complaining party,
as distinguished from defense.
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