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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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SIN'EW, n.
SIN'EW, v.i. To knit as by sinews.
A tendon or tendonous
tissue. See Tendon.
Muscle; nerve.
[R.] Sir J.
Davies. Fig.: That which supplies strength or
power.
The portion and sinew of her fortune, her marriage dowry. Shak. The bodies of men, munition, and money, may justly be called the sinews of war. Sir W. Raleigh. * Money alone is often called the sinews of war. To knit together, or make strong with, or as
with, sinews.
Shak.
Wretches, now stuck up for long tortures . . . might, if properly treated, serve to sinew the state in time of danger. Goldsmith. | ||||||||