detrude
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Christie DeTrude said the ban on communication in the measure that could make someone feel “unwelcome” based on gender identity violates her First Amendment rights, The Washington Times’ Valerie Richardson reports.
From Washington Times
“Free speech is for everyone. Americans should be free to say what they believe without fear of government punishment,” said Rachel Csutoros, the Alliance Defending Freedom legal counsel representing Ms. DeTrude.
From Washington Times
If any Part of the Intestines, the Cavity of the Guts is closed up, whatever may have occasioned it, the Course or Descent of the Food they contain is necessarily stopped; in which Case it frequently happens, that that continual Motion observed in the Guts of a living Animal dissected, and which was intended to detrude, or force their Contents downwards, is propagated in a directly contrary Manner, from the Guts towards the Mouth.
From Project Gutenberg
Detrude, de-trōōd′, v.t. to thrust down.—n.
From Project Gutenberg
If the spirit of animation was always necessarily penetrable, it could not influence or be influenced by the solidity of common matter; they would exist together, but could not detrude each other from the part of space, where they exist; that is, they could not communicate motion to each other.
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