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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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RELAPSE, v.i. relaps'. [L. relapsus, relabor, to slide back; re and labor, to slide.]
RELAPSE, n. relaps'. A sliding or falling back, particularly into a former bad state, either of body or of morals; as a relapse into a disease from a convalescent state; a relapse into a vicious course of life. [In the sense of a person relapsing, not used.]
To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to
turn back.
[Obs.] Dryden. To slide or turn back into a former state
or practice; to fall back from some condition attained; -- generally
in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition;
as, to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; --
sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after
being disturbed.
That task performed, [preachers] relapse into themselves. Cowper. To fall from Christian
faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide.
They enter into the justified state, and so continue all along, unless they relapse. Waterland. A sliding or falling back, especially into a
former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of
having fallen back.
Alas! from what high hope to what relapse One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into
error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error,
returns to it again.
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