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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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RING'LEADER, n. [ring and leader.] The leader of any association of men engaged in violating of law or an illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers and the like. this name is derived from the practice which men associating to oppose law have sometimes adopted, of signing their names to articles of agreement in a ring, that no one of their number might be distinguished as the leader.
The leader of a circle of dancers] hence, the leader of a number
of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals.
A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of men
engaged in the violation of law or in an illegal enterprise, as
rioters, mutineers, or the like.
The ringleaders were apprehended, tried, fined, and imprisoned. Macaulay. | ||||||||