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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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TERRES'TRIAL, a. [L. terrestris, from terra, the earth.]
Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as,
terrestrial animals.
"Bodies terrestrial." 1 Cor.
xv. 40. Representing, or consisting of, the earth; as, a
terrestrial globe.
"The dark terrestrial ball."
Addison. Of or pertaining to the world, or to the present
state; sublunary; mundane.
Vain labors of terrestrial wit. Spenser. A genius bright and base, Consisting of land, in distinction from water;
belonging to, or inhabiting, the land or ground, in distinction from trees,
water, or the like; as, terrestrial serpents.
The terrestrial parts of the globe. Woodward. Adapted for the observation of objects on land
and on the earth; as, a terrestrial telescope, in distinction from
an astronomical telescope.
-- An inhabitant of the
earth.
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