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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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TRACE, n. [L. tractus, tracto. See Track, and the verb Trace.]
TRACE, n. Traces, in a harness, are the straps, chains or ropes by which a carriage or sleigh is drawn by horses. [Locally these are called tugs.]
TRACE, v.t. [L. tracto, from traho; Eng. to draw, to drag.]
One of two straps, chains, or ropes
of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree
attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
A mark left by anything
passing; a track; a path; a course; a footprint; a vestige; as, the
trace of a carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous
trace.
Milton. A very small quantity of
an element or compound in a given substance, especially when so small that
the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis] -- hence, in
stating an analysis, often contracted to tr.
A mark, impression, or visible appearance of
anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token;
vestige.
The shady empire shall retain no trace The
intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a
coordinate plane.
The ground plan of a work or
works.
Syn.-Vestige] mark; token. See Vestige. To mark out] to draw or delineate with marks;
especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and
marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to
trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing.
Some faintly traced features or outline of the mother and the child, slowly lading into the twilight of the woods. Hawthorne. To follow by some mark that has been left by a
person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or
tokens.
Cowper.
You may trace the deluge quite round the globe. T. Burnet. I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways Hence, to follow the trace or track
of.
How all the way the prince on footpace traced. Spenser. To copy; to imitate.
That servile path thou nobly dost decline, To walk over; to pass through; to
traverse.
We do tracethis alley up and down. Shak. To walk; to go; to
travel.
[Obs.]
Not wont on foot with heavy arms to trace. Spenser. A
connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another
piece, for transmitting motion, esp. from one plane to another;
specif., such a piece in an organ-stop action to transmit motion from
the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
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