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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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STUNT, v.t. [See Stint.] To hinder from growth; applied to animals and plants; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.
To hinder from growing to
the natural size] to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to
stunt a child; to stunt a plant.
When, by a cold penury, I blast the abilities of a nation, and stunt the growth of its active energies, the ill or may do is beyond all calculation. Burke. A
check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a
stunted animal or thing.
Specifically: A whale two years old, which,
having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.
A feat hard to perform; an act which is striking for the skill,
strength, or the like, required to do it; a feat.
[Colloq.]
An extraordinary man does three or four different "stunts" with remarkable dexterity. The Bookman. He does not try to do stunts; and, above all, he does not care to go in swimming. L. Hutton. | ||||||||