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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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RAS'CAL, n.
RAS'CAL, a.
One of the rabble; a low, common sort of
person or creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, a
lean, ill-conditioned beast, esp. a deer.
[Obs.]
He smote of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand of the rascal. Wyclif (1 Kings [1 Samuel] vi. 19). Poor men alone? No, no; the noblest deer hath them [horns] as huge as the rascal. Shak. A mean, trickish fellow; a base, dishonest
person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster.
For I have sense to serve my turn in store, Of or pertaining to the
common herd or common people; low; mean; base.
"The
rascal many." Spenser. "The rascal people."
Shak.
While she called me rascal fiddler. Shak. | ||||||||