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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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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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1828 Definition
TORT'UOUS, a. [L. tortuosus.]
1913 Definition
Bent in different directions; wreathed;
twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a
tortuous leaf or corolla.
The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick. Macaulay. Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect;
erroneous; deceitful.
That course became somewhat lesstortuous, when the battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the Jakobites. Macaulay. Injurious: tortious.
[Obs.] Oblique; -- applied to the six
signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly
and obliquely.
[Obs.] Skeat.
Infortunate ascendent tortuous. Chaucer. -- | ||||||||
Noah Says...
The brief exposition of the constitution of the United States, will unfold to young persons the principles of republican government; and it is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the Bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.
History of the United States :: 1832
