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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.
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6280

 bisexous
[.] BISEX'OUS, a. Consisting of both sexes.

6292

 bissextile
[.] BISSEX'TILE, n. [L.bissextilis, leap year, from bissextus, [bis and sextus] the sixth of the calends of March, or twenty-fourth day of February, which was reckoned twice every fourth year, by the interrelation of a day.] [.] Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day ...

14547

 decimo-sexto
[.] DECIMO-SEXTO, n. A book is in decimo-sexto, when a sheet is folded into sixteen leaves. [.] DECI'PHER, v.t.

16581

 disexercise
[.] DISEXERCISE, v.t. To deprive of exercise. [A bad word.]

49168

 semi-sextile
[.] SEMI-SEX'TILE, n. [semi and sextile.] An aspect of the planets, when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees.

49474

 sex
[.] SEX, n. [L. sexus; from L. seco, to divide.] [.] 1. The distinction between male and female; or the property or character by which an animal is male or female. The male sex is usually characterized by muscular strength, boldness ...

49475

 sexagenarian
[.] SEXAGENA'RIAN, n. [infra.] A person who has arrived at the age of sixty years.

49476

 sexagenary
[.] SEX'AGENARY, a. [L. sexagenarius, from sex, six, and a word signifying ten, seen in viginti; bis-genti.] Designating the number sixty; as a noun, a person sixty years of age; also, something composed of sixty.

49477

 sexagesima
[.] SEXAGES'IMA, n. [L. sexagesimus, sextieth.] The second Sunday before Lent, the next to Shrove-Sunday, so called as being the 60th day before Easter.

49478

 sexagesimal
[.] SEXAGES'IMAL, a. Sixtieth; pertaining to the number sexty. Sexagenary or sexgesimal arithmetic, is a method of comutation by sexties, as that which is used in dividing minutes into seconds

49479

 sexangled
[.] SEXAN'GLED, a. [L. sex, six, and angulus, angle.] Having six angles; hexagonal.

49480

 sexangular
[.] SEXAN'GULAR,

49481

 sexdecimal
[.] SEXDEC'IMAL, a. [L. sex, six, and decem, ten.] In crystalography, when a prism or the middle part of a crystal has six faces and two summits, and taken together, ten faces, or the reverse.

49482

 sexennial
[.] SEXEN'NIAL, a. [L. sex, six, and annus, year.] Lasting six years, or happening once in six years.

49483

 sexfid
[.] SEX'FID, a. [L. sex, six, and findo, to divide.] In botany, six-cleft; as a sexfid calyx or nectary.

49484

 sexinnially
[.] SEXIN'NIALLY, adv. Once in six years.

49485

 sexlocular
[.] SEXLOC'ULAR, a. [L. sex, six, and loculus, cell.] In botany, six-celled; having six cells for seeds; as a sexlocular pericarp.

49486

 sextain
[.] SEX'TAIN, n. [L. sextans, a sixth, from sex, six.] A stanza of six lines. [.]

49487

 sextant
[.] SEX'TANT, n. [L. sextans, a sixth. the Romans divided the as into 12 ounces; a sixth, or two ounces, was the sextans.] [.] 1. In mathematics, the sixth part of a circle. Hence, [.] 2. An instrument formed like a quadrant, excepting ...

49488

 sextary
[.] SEX'TARY, n. [L. sextarius.] A measure of a pint and a half. [.] SEX'TARY, n. The same as sacristan. [Not used.]

49489

 sextile
[.] SEX'TILE, n. [L. sextilis, from sex, six.] Denoting the aspect or position of two planets, when distant from each other 60 degrees or two signs. This position is marked thus*.

49490

 sexton
[.] SEX'TON, n. [contracted from sacristan, which see.] An under officer of the church, whose buiness is to take care of the vessels, vestments, &c. belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman and perform other duties pertaining to the church, ...

49491

 sextonship
[.] SEX'TONSHIP, n. The office of a sexton.

49492

 sextry
[.] SEX'TRY,

49493

 sextuple
[.] SEX'TUPLE, a. [Low L. sextuplus; sex, six, and duplus, double.] [.] 1. Sixfold; six times as much. [.] 2. In music, denoting a mixed sort of triple, beaten in double time, or a measure of two times composed of six equal ...

49494

 sexual
[.] SEX'UAL, a. [from sex.] [.] 1. Pertaining to sex or the sexes; distinguishing the sex; denoting what is particular to the distinction and office of male and female; as sexual characteristics; sexual intercourse, connection or commerce. [.] ...

49495

 sexualist
[.] SEX'UALIST, n. One who believes and maintains the doctrine of sexes in plants; or onw who classifies the differences of the sexes and parts of fructification.

49496

 sexuality
[.] SEXUAL'ITY, n. The state of being distinguished by sex.

53064

 subsextuple
[.] SUBSEX'TUPLE, a. [L. sub and sextuplus.] Containing one part in six.

59576

 unsex
[.] UNSEX', v.t. To deprive of the sex, or to make otherwise than the sex commonly is.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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