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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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TORT'UOUS, a. [L. tortuosus.]
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. -- | ||||||||