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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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RECESS', n. [L. recessus, from recedo. See Recede.]
A withdrawing or retiring; a
moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
Every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality. South. My recess hath given them confidence that I may be conquered. Eikon Basilike. The state of being withdrawn; seclusion;
privacy.
In the recess of the jury they are to consider the evidence. Sir M. Hale. Good verse recess and solitude requires. Dryden. Remission or suspension of business or
procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or
school.
The recess of . . . Parliament lasted six weeks. Macaulay. Part of a room formed by the receding of
the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
A bed which stood in a deep recess. W. Irving. A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or
seclusion.
Departure from this happy place, our sweet Secret or abstruse part; as, the
difficulties and recesses of science.
I.
Watts. A
sinus.
To make a recess in] as, to recess a
wall.
A decree of the
imperial diet of the old German empire.
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