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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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VI'BRATE, v.i. [L. vibro; Eng. wabble.]
VI'BRATE, v.t.
To brandish; to move to
and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff.
To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a
pendulum vibrating seconds.
To affect with vibratory motion; to set in
vibration.
Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated or undulated, may . . . impress a swift, tremulous motion. Holder. Star to star vibrates light. Tennyson. To move to and fro, or from side to side, as a pendulum, an elastic
rod, or a stretched string, when disturbed from its position of rest; to
swing; to oscillate.
To have the constituent particles move to and
fro, with alternate compression and dilation of parts, as the air, or any
elastic body; to quiver.
To produce an oscillating or quivering effect of
sound; as, a whisper vibrates on the ear.
Pope. To pass from one state to another; to waver; to
fluctuate; as, a man vibrates between two opinions.
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