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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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TOP'IC, n. [Gr. place; L. topicus, topica.]

1. Any subject of discourse or argument. The Scriptures furnish an unlimited number of topics for the preacher,and topics infinitely interesting.

2. In rhetoric, a probable argument drawn from the several circumstances and places of a fact. Aristotle wrote a book of topics. Cicero defines topics to be the art of finding arguments.

3. Principle of persuasion.

Contumacious persons whom no topics can work upon.

4. In medicine, an external remedy; a remedy to be applied outwardly to a particular part of the body, as a plaster, a poultice, a blister and the like.

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TOP'IC, n. [Gr. place; L. topicus, topica.]

1. Any subject of discourse or argument. The Scriptures furnish an unlimited number of topics for the preacher,and topics infinitely interesting.

2. In rhetoric, a probable argument drawn from the several circumstances and places of a fact. Aristotle wrote a book of topics. Cicero defines topics to be the art of finding arguments.

3. Principle of persuasion.

Contumacious persons whom no topics can work upon.

4. In medicine, an external remedy; a remedy to be applied outwardly to a particular part of the body, as a plaster, a poultice, a blister and the like.

TOP'IC


TOP'IC, n. [Gr. τοπος, place; L. topicus, topica; Sans. topu.]

  1. Any subject of discourse or argument. The Scriptures furnish an unlimited number of topics for the preacher, and topics infinitely interesting.
  2. In rhetoric, a probable argument drawn from the several circumstances and places of a fact. Aristotle wrote a book of topics. Cicero defines topics to be the art of finding arguments. Cyc.
  3. Principle of persuasion. Contumacious persons whom no topics can work upon. Wilkins.
  4. In medicine, an external remedy; a remedy to be applied outwardly to a particular part of the body, as a plaster, a poultice, a blister and the like. Cyc.

Top"ic
  1. An argument or reason.

    [Obs.]

    Contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom no topics can work upon. Bp. Wilkins.

  2. Topical.

    Drayton. Holland.
  3. The subject of any distinct portion of a discourse, or argument, or literary composition; also, the general or main subject of the whole; a matter treated of; a subject, as of conversation or of thought; a matter; a point; a head.
  4. An external local application or remedy, as a plaster, a blister, etc.

    [Obsoles.] Wiseman.
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Topic

TOP'IC, noun [Gr. place; Latin topicus, topica.]

1. Any subject of discourse or argument. The Scriptures furnish an unlimited number of topics for the preacher, and topics infinitely interesting.

2. In rhetoric, a probable argument drawn from the several circumstances and places of a fact. Aristotle wrote a book of topics. Cicero defines topics to be the art of finding arguments.

3. Principle of persuasion.

Contumacious persons whom no topics can work upon.

4. In medicine, an external remedy; a remedy to be applied outwardly to a particular part of the body, as a plaster, a poultice, a blister and the like.

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importance

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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reverse

REVERSE, v.t. revers'. [L. reversus, reverto; re and verto, to turn.]

1. To turn upside down; as, to reverse a pyramid or cone.

2. To overturn; to subvert; as, to reverse the state.

3. To turn back; as with swift wheel reverse.

4. To turn to the contrary; as, to reverse the scene.

- Or affectations quite reverse the soul.

5. To put each in the place of the other; as, to reverse the distinctions of good and evil.

6. In law, to overthrow by a contrary decision; to make void; to annul; as, to reverse a judgment, sentence or decree. Judgments are reversed by writs of error; and for certain causes, may be reversed without such writs.

7. To recall. [Not in use.]

REVERSE, v.i. revers'. To return. [Not in use.]

REVERSE, n. revers'.

1. Change; vicissitude; a turn of affairs; in a good sense.

By a strange reverse of things, Justinian's law, which for many ages was neglected, now obtains -

2. Change for the worse; misfortune. By an unexpected reverse of circumstances, an affluent man is reduced to poverty.

3. A contrary; an opposite.

The performances to which God has annexed the promises of eternity, are just the reverse of all the pursuits of sense.

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