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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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RHYME,
An expression of thought in
numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale;
poetry; harmony of language.
"Railing rhymes."
Daniel.
A ryme I learned long ago. Chaucer. He knew Correspondence of sound in
the terminating words or syllables of two or more verses, one
succeeding another immediately or at no great distance. The words or
syllables so used must not begin with the same consonant, or if one
begins with a vowel the other must begin with a consonant. The vowel
sounds and accents must be the same, as also the sounds of the final
consonants if there be any.
For rhyme with reason may dispense, Verses, usually two, having this
correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing
rhymes.
A word answering in sound to another
word.
Female rhyme. See under Female. - - Male rhyme. See under Male. -- Rhyme or reason, sound or sense. -- Rhyme royal (Pros.), a stanza of seven decasyllabic verses, of which the first and third, the second, fourth, and fifth, and the sixth and seventh rhyme. To make
rhymes, or verses.
"Thou shalt no longer ryme."
Chaucer.
There marched the bard and blockhead, side by side, To accord in rhyme or sound.
And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well. Dryden. To
put into rhyme.
Sir T. Wilson. To influence by rhyme.
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