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▪ I. diˈssenting, vbl. n.
[f. dissent v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. dissent; a differing in opinion; disagreement.
1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. i. x. §14 Wherein the one part may haue probable cause of dissenting from the other. 1628T. Spencer Logick 50 Difference is a dissenting betweene the essence of two. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. ii. 29 He..Bad us to keep the holy Paschal Time, And count Dissenting for an hainous Crime.
▪ II. diˈssenting, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. Differing or disagreeing in opinion, dissentient; also, † differing in sense, nature, character, etc.
1550Hooper Serm. Jonas Epist. Wks. (Parker Soc.) 442 The which doctrine is catholic..nothing dissenting, but agreeable with the prophets and apostles. 1627Speed England xxxiii. §3 Whose natures thus dissenting [as to their soil] the Riuer Derwent doth diuide asunder. 1762Falconer Shipwr. i. 433 Dissenting reason strove To tame..the kindling flame of love. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 329 A convention..ratified the constitution without a dissenting voice. a1871Grote Eth. Fragm. iii. (1876) 51 Each of the dissenting schools of philosophy.
2. Differing in opinion on religious matters; spec. disagreeing with the established or prevailing doctrines or modes of worship; nonconformist.
Dissenting Brethren, a name applied to the five members of the Westminster Assembly, 1643–4, who advocated Congregational principles against the Presbyterian majority.
1644Jrnl. Ho. Commons 23 Dec., Mr. Marshall delivered in the Reasons of the Dissenting Brethren against Presbyterial Government. 1649in Harl. Misc. (title), The Dissenting Ministers' vindication of themselves. 1711Act 10 Ann c. 2 §9 A Preacher or Teacher of any Congregation of dissenting Protestants. 1766Entick London IV. 366 The hall room is let out for a dissenting meeting. 1803J. Bunting 23 Sept. in Life (1859) I. x. 181 The Dissenting Ministers..are quite before us Methodists in [these] publications. 1843Penny Cycl. XXVII. 247 The chiefs of the Independent party in the Assembly were Dr. Thomas Goodwin, Philip Nye, Jeremiah Burroughs, William Bridge, and Sidrach Simpson, often spoken of as the Five Dissenting Brethren. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 177 It was made a crime to attend a dissenting place of worship. |