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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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U'NISON, n. [L. unus, one, and sonur, sound.]
U'NISON, a. Sounding alone.
Harmony; agreement; concord;
union.
Identity in pitch; coincidence of
sounds proceeding from an equality in the number of vibrations made in a
given time by two or more sonorous bodies. Parts played or sung in octaves
are also said to be in unison, or in octaves.
* If two cords of the same substance have equal length, thickness, and tension, they are said to be in unison, and their sounds will be in unison. Sounds of very different qualities and force may be in unison, as the sound of a bell may be in unison with a sound of a flute. Unison, then, consists in identity of pitch alone, irrespective of quality of sound, or timbre, whether of instruments or of human voices. A piece or passage is said to be sung or played in unison when all the voices or instruments perform the same part, in which sense unison is contradistinguished from harmony. A single, unvaried.
[R.] Pope.
In unison, in agreement; agreeing in tone; in concord. Sounding alone.
[Obs.]
[sounds] intermixed with voice, Sounded alike in pitch; unisonant;
unisonous; as, unison passages, in which two or more parts unite in
coincident sound.
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