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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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WIMPLE, n. [G., a pendant.] A hood or vail. Isaiah 3.
WIMPLE, v.t. To draw down, as a vail.
A covering of silk, linen, or other material,
for the neck and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and
still retained in the dress of nuns.
Full seemly her wympel ipinched is. Chaucer. For she had laid her mournful stole aside, Then Vivian rose, A flag or streamer.
Weale. To clothe with a wimple] to cover, as with a
veil; hence, to hoodwink.
"She sat ywympled well."
Chaucer.
This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy. Shak. To draw down, as a veil; to lay in folds or
plaits, as a veil.
To cause to appear as if laid in folds or
plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate; as, the wind wimples the
surface of water.
To lie in folds; also, to
appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to ripple; to undulate.
"Wimpling waves." Longfellow.
For with a veil, that wimpled everywhere, With me through . . . meadows stray, | ||||||||