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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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SA'LIENT, a. [L. saliens, salio, to leap.]
SA'LIENT, a. [L. saliens, from salio, to leap or shoot out.]
Moving by leaps or springs]
leaping; bounding; jumping.
"Frogs and salient animals."
Sir T. Browne. Shooting out or up; springing;
projecting.
He had in himself a salient, living spring of generous and manly action. Burke. Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the
attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable.
He [Grenville] had neither salient traits, nor general comprehensiveness of mind. Bancroft. Projecting
outwardly] as, a salient angle; -- opposed to
reëntering. See Illust. of
Bastion.
Represented in a leaping
position; as, a lion salient.
Salient angle. See Salient,
A
salient angle or part; a projection.
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