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Give me, I cry"d, enough for me, 
My bread and independency ; 
So bought an annual rent or two. 
And liv’d juft as you fee I do. rope, 
INDEPEN'DENCY, f. The ftate of a religious feft 
which is called independent.— This meaning of the word is 
exemplified in the title of Walker’s Hiftory of Independency. 
Mafon's Supplement to Joknfon. 
INDEPEN'DENT, adj. Not depending; not fupport- 
ed by any other; not relying on another; not controlled. 
It is ufed with on, of, or from, before the objeft; of which 
on feems rrtoft proper, fince we fay to depend on, and con¬ 
sequently dependent on. —Creation muft needs infer provi- 
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ifence, and God’s making the world irrefragably prove* 
that he governs it too; or that a being of dependent na¬ 
ture remains neverthelefs independent -upon him in that re- 
fpeCt. South. —Since all princes of independent governments 
are in a ftate of nature, the world never was without men 
in that ftate. Locke. —The town of St. Gaul is a Proteftant 
republic, independent of the abbot, and under the protec¬ 
tion of the cantons. Addifon.— Not relating to any thin** 
elfe, as to a fuperior caule of power.—The confideration 
of our underftanding, which is an incorporeal fubftance 
independent from matter; and the contemplation of our 
own bodies, whicli have all the ftamps and characters of 
excellent contrivance ; thefe alone do very eafily gulde¬ 
ns to the wife Author of all things. Bentley . 
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