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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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QUAD'RATURE, n. [L. quadratura.]
The act
of squaring; the finding of a square having the same area as some
given curvilinear figure; as, the quadrature of a circle; the
operation of finding an expression for the area of a figure bounded
wholly or in part by a curved line, as by a curve, two ordinates, and
the axis of abscissas.
A quadrate; a square.
Milton. The integral
used in obtaining the area bounded by a curve; hence, the definite
integral of the product of any function of one variable into the
differential of that variable.
The position of one
heavenly body in respect to another when distant from it 90°, or a
quarter of a circle, as the moon when at an equal distance from the
points of conjunction and opposition.
Quadrature of the moon (Astron.), the position of the moon when one half of the disk is illuminated. -- Quadrature of an orbit (Astron.), a point in an orbit which is at either extremity of the latus rectum drawn through the empty focus of the orbit. | ||||||||