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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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STRAGGLE, v.i. stragl. [This word seems to be formed on the root of stray. G., to pass, to migrate.]
To wander from the direct course or way] to rove; to stray; to
wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when
troops are on the march, the men should not straggle.
Dryden. To wander at large; to roam idly about; to
ramble.
The wolf spied out a straggling kid. L'Estrange. To escape or stretch beyond proper limits,
as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far
or widely in growth.
Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out. Mortimer. To be dispersed or separated; to occur at
intervals.
"Straggling pistol shots." Sir W.
Scott.
They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks. Sir W. Raleigh. The act of
straggling.
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