| 单词 | free church of scotland |
| 释义 | > as lemmasFree Church of Scotland b. Frequently more fully as Free Church of Scotland. The organization formed by the ministers who seceded from the Church of Scotland in the Disruption of 1843 (see disruption n. 3).The majority of members joined with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland in 1900 to form the United Free Church of Scotland, which itself reunited with the Church of Scotland in 1929. The names Free Church of Scotland and United Free Church of Scotland were retained by smaller groups which remain independent. Cf. Free Kirk n., the Wee Free Kirk at wee adj. e. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Presbyterianism > Presbyterian sects and groups > [noun] > Free Church > collective kirk?1566 Auld Kirk1780 Free Church of Scotland1843 Free Kirk1843 free1863 1843 Acts Gen. Assembly Free Church 30 May 38 We the Ministers and Elders of the Free Church of Scotland, convened in this our General Assembly [etc.]. 1843 R. S. Candlish Speech 6 Sept. in Mem. (1880) 315 The Free Church, since the Disruption, has in a wonderful manner kept herself free from..attacks on the existing Establishment. 1887 Times 28 May 8/1 In the Free Church a new departure has been taken in choosing as Moderator a post-Disruption Minister. 1895 ‘I. Maclaren’ Days Auld Lang Syne ii. v. 113 Doctor Davidson motioned to the Free Church minister to take his place at the head. 1904 Times 31 Dec. 8/1 The funds must be handed over to the remnant of the old Free Church—the ‘Wee Frees’, as Scotland nicknames them. 1953 Scotsman 20 May in Sc. National Dict. (1956) IV. at Free They in the Free Church represented a tradition which had served Scotland well in the past and which had bred Christian character. 1997 O. D. Edwards in A. Reid & B. D. Osborne Discovering Sc. Writers 16 Buchan was born on 26th August 1875 in Perth, son of a Free Church of Scotland minister, later domiciled in Glasgow and Peebles. 2003 Scotsman (Nexis) 31 Oct. 18 It is rare for women to precent in the Free Church. < as lemmas |
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