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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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STARVE, v.i. [G., to die, either by disease or hunger, or by a wound.]
STARVE, v.t.
To die; to
perish.
[Obs., except in the sense of perishing with cold or
hunger.] Lydgate.
In hot coals he hath himself raked . . . To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme
hunger or want; to be very indigent.
Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. Pope. To perish or die with cold.
Spenser.
Have I seen the naked starve for cold? Sandys. Starving with cold as well as hunger. W. Irving. * In this sense, still common in England, but rarely used of the United States. To
destroy with cold.
[Eng.]
From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to
starve a man is, in law, murder.
To distress or subdue by famine; as, to
starvea garrison into a surrender.
Attalus endeavored to starve Italy by stopping their convoy of provisions from Africa. Arbuthnot. To destroy by want of any kind; as, to
starve plans by depriving them of proper light and
air.
To deprive of force or vigor; to
disable.
The pens of historians, writing thereof, seemed starved for matter in an age so fruitful of memorable actions. Fuller. The powers of their minds are starved by disuse. Locke. | ||||||||