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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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SPOUSE, n. [L., to engage.] One engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife. We say of a man, that he is the spouse of such a woman; or of a woman, she is the spouse of such a man.
SPOUSE, v.t. To wed; to espouse. [Little used. See Espouse.]
A man or woman engaged or
joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife.
At last such grace I found, and means I wrought, A married man, in distinct from a
spousess or married woman; a bridegroom or
husband.
[Obs.]
At which marriage was [were] no person present but the spouse, the spousess, the Duchess of Bedford her mother, the priest, two gentlewomen, and a young man. Fabyan. To wed; to espouse.
[Obs.]
This markis hath her spoused with a ring. Chaucer. Though spoused, yet wanting wedlock's solemnize. Spenser. She was found again, and spoused to Marinell. Spenser. | ||||||||