单词 | dissenter |
释义 | dissentern. 1. One who dissents in any matter: one who disagrees with any opinion, resolution, or proposal; a dissentient. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > dissent or disagreement > [noun] > one who declinator1606 discrepant1620 dissentient1621 disassentera1650 dissenter1651 dissident1789 no man1930 1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. vi. §2. 87 If any one will not consent..the City retaines its primitive Right against the Dissentour, that is the Right of War, as against an Enemy. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 109 If the Question had been presently put, it was believ'd the number of the Dissenters would not have appear'd great. 1717 A. Pope Corr. June (1956) I. 407 There is nothing like a Coalition, but at the Masquerade; however the Princess is a Dissenter from it. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. i. 211 Some think fit to be Dissenters; assuring us that Cæsaria stood elsewhere. 1865 G. Grote Plato I. Pref. p. vii These dissenters from the public will also be, probably, more or less dissenters from each other. 1869 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. May 555 Mr. Arnold, with whose clear and critical spirit it is always good to come in contact, as disciple or as dissenter. 2. One who dissents in matters of religious belief and worship: a. in the general sense. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [noun] > person recusant1581 disagreer1605 unconformitant1605 nonconformist1618 non-conformer1622 nonconformitan1622 nonconformitantc1630 inconformist1633 dissenter1639 unconformist1640 fanatic1644 non-conformant1654 withdrawer1677 non-consenter1680 non-con1681 meeting-house man1711 shit-sack1769 dissident1790 meetinger1802 chapel-goer1842 speckle-belly1874 1639 G. Digby in G. Digby & K. Digby Lett. conc. Relig. (1651) 88 The dissentors may well have bin overborn or supprest. 1644 G. Gillespie Wholesome Severity 36 By accommodation I understand an agreement of dissenters with the rest of the Church in practical conclusions. 1649 J. Owen Disc. Toleration in Wks. (1855) VIII. 193 The present differences which are between those dissenters who are known by the names of Presbyterians and Independents..Neither party..dare avow the manner of worship by their dissenters embraced to be, as such, rejected by the Lord. 1692 J. Dryden All for Love (new ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. A3v Its Discipline is..so easie, that it allows more freedom to Dissenters than any of the Sects woud allow to it. 1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xlii. 468 The application of the two leading dissenters here [Sampson, Dean of Ch. Ch., and Humfrey, Pres. of Magd. Coll., who refused to wear the Vestments] to those two eminent divines of the Church of Zurick. b. One who dissents and separates himself from any specified church or religious communion, especially from that which is historically the national church, or is in some way treated as such, or regarded as the orthodox body. ΚΠ 1663 J. Heath Flagellum (ed. 2) 14 [Cromwell] began..at last to appear a publique Dissenter from the Discipline of the Church of England. 1673 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 124 Complaints from some of ye Scotch Nation of their persecution..upon ye score of Nonconformitie, divers of those people who are dissenters from ye Church having bin..excommunicated. 1688–9 Toleration Act 1 W. & M. c. 18 §13 Certain other Persons, Dissenters from the Church of England. 1793 M. Cutler Let. 15 Nov. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 277 In Massachusetts the Congregationalists were the favorites of Government, and every other denomination was considered as dissenters from them. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) xiv. 462 Copt and Syrian, Georgian and Armenian, have..their own claims to maintain, as dissenters, so to speak, against the great Byzantine establishment. 1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 54 The Persians happen to be Shiites, or dissenters—the Turks are Sunnites, or orthodox. 1882 J. R. Seeley Nat. Relig. ii. i. 124 The popular Christianity of the day..is for the artist too melancholy and sedate, for the man of science too sentimental and superficial..They become, therefore, dissenters from the existing religion. c. spec. One who separates himself from the communion of the Established Church of England or (in Scotland) of Scotland. In early use including Roman Catholics, but now usually restricted to those legally styled Protestant Dissenters. (Usually with capital D.)Occasionally distinguished from Nonconformist, and restricted to those who not only dissent from the national church as it is actually constituted, but disagree with the principle of national or state churches. ΚΠ 1679–88 in J. Y. Akerman Moneys Secret Services Charles II & James II (1851) (Camden) 98 To Benja Cranmer, of Hertford, bounty, in consideracion of his charge and service in prosecuting Dissenters in that county, £100. 1683 J. Gadbury in G. Wharton Wks. Pref. 4 Dissenters (a Title Rebellious people pride themselves in, and love to be distinguished by). 1687 Marquis of Halifax Let. to Dissenter 6 It is not so long since, as to be forgotten, that the Maxime was, It is impossible for a Dissenter, not to be a Rebel. 1689 W. Sancroft Instruct. Clergy 2 More especially that they have a very tender Regard to our Brethren the Protestant Dissenters. 1689 Toleration Act 1 W. & M. c. 18 §11 Unlesse such person can produce two sufficient witnesses to testifie upon oath that they believe him to be a Protestant Dissenter. 1708 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1743) i. iii. i. 148 [After Papists] The other Dissenters..may be reduced into four classes, Presbyterians, Independents, Anabaptists, (or as they call themselves), Baptists, and Quakers. 1731 H. Fielding Letter-writers ii. ii. 23 Do you take me for a Dissenter, you Rascal. 1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1892) I. 54 Although the majority of our citizens were dissenters..a majority of the legislature were churchmen. 1826 Petersdorff Abr. Cases in Courts K.B. etc. V. 432 (note) Catholic and Protestant dissenters may plead the Acts of Toleration, and of 31 Geo. 3 to almost all prosecutions under these acts. 1839 Eclectic Rev. 1 Jan. 4 The Protestant Dissenters of English History, in whose favour the provisions of the ‘Toleration Act’ were originally intended to operate, consist of the three denominations which have branched from the original Nonconformists; viz., the Presbyterians, the Congregationalists (or Independents), and the Baptists. 1890 Atkinson Speech House of Commons 22 July I am not a Dissenter; I am a Nonconformist. d. figurative and transferred. ΚΠ 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. xxiii. 187 A coxcomb [and]..a coquet..are..the dissenters of society. 1865 G. Grote Plato I. ii. 88 There is no established philosophical orthodoxy, but a collection of Dissenters, small sects, each with its own following. Derivatives Diˈssenterage n. condition or rank of Dissenters. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [noun] dissent1585 dissenting1593 nonconformitya1631 inconformity1633 unconformity1635 nonconforming1651 dissentaneousness1652 nonconformitancya1670 dissension1708 Dissenterism1809 nonconformism1844 dissentism1859 Dissenterage1867 1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) I. 82 The then Dissenterage is definable to moderns simply as a ‘Free Kirk, making no noise’. Diˈssenterish adj. having somewhat of the character of a Dissenter. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [adjective] dissentiousa1568 unconformed?1608 unconformable1611 unconforming1622 unconformist1640 nonconformist1641 dissenting1644 nonconforming1646 non-conform1648 non-conformable1653 unconform1655 fanatical1678 non-consenting1680 nonconformistical1808 dissident1837 Dissenterish1841 unconformitable1888 chapel1946 1841 Fraser's Mag. 25 729 The volume looks..so dissenterish and drab-coloured! 1864 M. Oliphant Perpetual Curate I. ii. 33 A kind of meddling, Dissenterish, missionising individual. Diˈssenterism n. the principles and practice of Dissenters. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [noun] dissent1585 dissenting1593 nonconformitya1631 inconformity1633 unconformity1635 nonconforming1651 dissentaneousness1652 nonconformitancya1670 dissension1708 Dissenterism1809 nonconformism1844 dissentism1859 Dissenterage1867 1809 J. Jebb Let. in Life & Lett. xxxv. 460 It..shews the interior of English dissenterism, during a period of thirty very important years. 1847 W. E. Forster in T. W. Reid Life W. E. Forster (1888) I. 213 Men grumble at Romanism and Church of Englandism and Protestant Dissenterism. Diˈssenterize v. (transitive) to convert into a Dissenter. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [verb (transitive)] > make Dissenterize1838 1838 S. Wilberforce in R. I. Wilberforce & S. Wilberforce Life W. Wilberforce I. 128 Such men altogether escape us, they became wholly individualized and semi-dissenterized. 1856 Literary Churchman 2 94/1 A plan for the Protestantizing, and even Dissenterizing, the University. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1639 |
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