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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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TIERCE, n. ters. A cask whose content is one third of a pipe, that is, forty gallons; or it may be the measure.
A
cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons;
also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty-five imperial,
gallons.
A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a
hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed
for shipment.
The third tone of the scale. See
Mediant.
A sequence of three playing cards of the same
suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.
A position in thrusting or
parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.
The third hour of the day, or
nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed
for that hour.
Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said
of an escutcheon.
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