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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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RETARDA'TION, n. The act of abating the velocity of motion; hinderance; the act of delaying; as the retardation of the motion of a ship; the retardation of hoary hairs.
The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the
retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to
acceleration.
The retardations of our fluent motion. De Quinsey. That which retards; an obstacle; an
obstruction.
Hills, sloughs, and other terrestrial retardations. Sir W. Scott. The keeping back of an
approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a
previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing
from suspension by resolving upwards instead of
downwards.
The extent to which anything is retarded;
the amount of retarding or delay.
Retardation of the tide. | ||||||||