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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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SOUSE, n.
SOUSE, v.t.
SOUSE, v.i. [See Soss. This word is probably the same as the preceding, to plunge, to dip; I believe from the Armoric.] To fall suddenly on; to rush with speed; as a hawk on its prey. Jove's bird will souse upon the tim'rous hare.
SOUSE, v.t. To strike with sudden violence.
SOUSE, adv. With sudden violence. [This word is low and vulgar.]
Pickle made with
salt.
Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp.,
the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
And he that can rear up a pig in his house, The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
[Prov. Eng.] The act of sousing; a plunging into
water.
To steep in pickle] to
pickle.
"A soused gurnet." Shak. To plunge or immerse in water or any
liquid.
They soused me over head and ears in water. Addison. To drench, as by an immersion; to wet
throughly.
Although I be well soused in this shower. Gascoigne. To
swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush
with speed; to make a sudden attack.
For then I viewed his plunge and souse Jove's bird will souse upon the timorous hare. J. Dryden. Jr. To pounce upon.
[R.]
[The gallant monarch] like eagle o'er his serie
towers, The act of sousing, or
swooping.
As a falcon fair With a sudden swoop;
violently.
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