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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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SCORCH, v.t.
SCORCH, v.i. To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.
To
burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to
subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without
consuming; as, to scorch linen.
Summer drouth or singèd air To affect painfully with heat, or as with
heat; to dry up with heat; to affect as by heat.
Lashed by mad rage, and scorched by brutal fires. Prior. To burn; to destroy by, or as by,
fire.
Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. Rev. xvi. 8. The fire that scorches me to death. Dryden. To
be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up.
Scatter a little mungy straw or fern amongst your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching. Mortimer. To burn or be burnt.
He laid his long forefinger on the scarlet letter, which forthwith seemed to scorch into Hester's breast, as if it had been red hot. Hawthorne. To ride or drive at
great, usually at excessive, speed; -- applied chiefly to
automobilists and bicyclists. [Colloq.]
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