What is so far from warranting any inference to the existence of a God, would, on the contrary, ground even an argument to his negation. Sir W. Hamilton 3. To instruct in elements or first principles called?

ground — So far from warranting any inference to the existence of a God, would, on the contrary, ground even an argument to his negation. Sir W. Hamilton 3. To instruct in elements or first principles. (Webster's 1913.)