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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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RET'ARD, v.t. [L. retardo; re and tardo, to delay, tardus, slow, late. See Target.]
RET'ARD, v.i. To stay back. [Not in use.]
To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to
prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to
hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard
the motion of a ship; -- opposed to accelerate.
To put off; to postpone; as, to
retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture
between nations.
Syn. -- To impede; hinder; obstruct; detain; delay; procrastinate; postpone; defer. To stay back.
[Obs.] Sir. T. Browne. Retardation;
delay.
Retard, or Age, of the tide, the interval between the transit of the moon at which a tide originates and the appearance of the tide itself. It is found, in general, that any particular tide is not principally due to the moon's transit immediately proceeding, but to a transit which has occured some time before, and which is said to correspond to it. The retard of the tide is thus distinguished from the lunitidal interval. See under Retardation. Ham. Nav. Encyc. | ||||||||