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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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SHOVE, v.t.
1. To push; to propel; to drive along by the direct application of strength without impulse; particularly, to push a body by sliding or causing it to move along the surface of another body, either by the hand or by an instrument; as, the shove a bottle along a table; to shove a table along the floor; to shove a boat along the water.
And shove away the worthy bidden guest. Milton.
To drive along by the direct and continuous application of
strength; to push; especially, to push (a body) so as to make it move
along the surface of another body; as, to shove a boat on the
water; to shove a table across the floor.
To push along, aside, or away, in a
careless or rude manner; to jostle.
And shove away the worthy bidden guest. Milton. He used to shove and elbow his fellow servants. Arbuthnot. To
push or drive forward; to move onward by pushing or
jostling.
To move off or along by an act pushing, as
with an oar a pole used by one in a boat; sometimes with
off.
He grasped the oar, The act of shoving; a
forcible push.
I rested . . . and then gave the boat another shove. Swift. Syn. -- See Thrust. Chaucer. | ||||||||