meetingern.
/ˈmiːtɪŋə/, U.S. /ˈmidɪŋər/ Sometimes depreciative. Now archaic.
A person who attends a meeting or meetings; spec. one who attends religious (esp. Nonconformist) services or meetings (meeting n. 3b); a member of a Nonconformist congregation.Recorded earliest in the compound night-meetinger.
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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
1802 L. Chester Federalism Triumphant i. iii. 16 As he had enlisted the nighth meetingers, he was determined to enlist the Harpers.
1810 S. Green Reformist I. 185 I plainly see, Sir, you are a methodist, or a meetinger, I believe you call it.
1858 S. A. Hammett Piney Woods Tavern 49 If you was at a meetin', and the preacher should stop to take a drink of water..you'd up and give the preacher and the meetiners ginerally your idees and views on the subject.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xii. 144 To be a meetinger, you must go to chapel in all winds and weathers.
1890 A. Jessopp Trials Country Parson 68 The Meetinger keeps himself posted up with the last clerical escapade.
1932 E. R. Cooper Mardles from Suffolk ii. 27 On one occasion he was badly had by one of his ‘meetiner’ friends, and was moved to pray for him publicly the following Sunday.
1953 V. Randolph & G. P. Wilson Down in Holler 54 People going to or from a religious meeting are often called meetin'ers. ‘It must have been about eleven o'clock,’ said a witness in a murder trial, ‘because I heard the meetin'ers go by just about that time.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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