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seceder|sɪˈsiːdə(r)|
[f. secede v. + -er1.]
1. One who secedes.
1755Johnson, Seceder, one who discovers his disapprobation of any proceedings by withdrawing himself. 1787Sir J. Hawkins Johnson 425 note, I was the only seceder from this society. 1808Med. Jrnl. XIX. 323, I had reason at this time to consider myself the first seceder from the established practice. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India i. i. I. 101 Athough seceders in some respects from the orthodox religion of the Hindus, the Sikhs retain so many essential articles of the Brahmanical faith that [etc.]. 1851W. E. Scudamore (title) Letters to a Seceder from the Church of England to the Communion of Rome. 1861Sat. Rev. 7 Dec. 570 He says that the Northern Americans would have been stigmatized as cowards if they had let the seceders go in peace.
2. spec. A member of the Secession Church.
1758A. Gellatly Some Observ. To Rdr. 2 note, As they made a Secession from the established Church, they are termed Seceders. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. II. 8 Aug., There is a sect of fanaticks, who have separated themselves from the established kirk, under the name of Seceders. 1835[T. Jackson] Man. Sects & Heresies 112 Seceders, a numerous sect of Presbyterians in Scotland, who have withdrawn from the communion of the Established Church... The Seceders were formerly subdivided into Burghers and Anti-burghers..; but in 1829 the two bodies were re-joined under the name of the United Secession Church.
b. attrib.
1833J. S. Sands Poems 51 (E.D.D.) He raised a kirk himsel' alane Just on the great Seceder plan. 1834Tait's Mag. I. 16/1 The Seceder meeting-house. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. (1858) 544 Which I had overheard in my cousin the Seceder minister's house. |