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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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WHIFFLE, v.i. [G., to doubt, to rove or wander, which seems to be allied to sweep.] To start, shift and turn; to change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle and unsteady.
WHIFFLE, v.t. To disperse with a puff; to scatter.
WHIFFLE, n. Anciently, a fife or small flute.
To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of
wind] to shift, turn, or veer about.
D(?)mpier. To change from one opinion or course to another;
to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
A person of whiffing and unsteady turn of mind can not keep close to a point of controversy. I. Watts. To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff;
to scatter.
[Obs.] Dr. H. More. To wave or shake quickly; to cause to
whiffle.
A fife or small
flute.
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