单词 | seceder |
释义 | secedern. 1. One who secedes. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] > one who secedes seceder1755 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Seceder, one who discovers his disapprobation of any proceedings by withdrawing himself. 1787 J. Hawkins Life Johnson 425 (note) I was the only seceder from this society. 1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 323 I had reason at this time to consider myself the first seceder from the established practice. 1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 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.]. 1851 W. E. Scudamore (title) Letters to a Seceder from the Church of England to the Communion of Rome. 1861 Sat. 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. a. spec. A member of the Secession Church. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Presbyterianism > Presbyterian sects and groups > [noun] > Secession > person seceder1758 1758 A. Gellatly Some Observ. To Rdr. 2 (note) As they made a Secession from the established Church, they are termed Seceders. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 238 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 Sects & Heresies 112 Seceders, a numerous sect of Presbyterians in Scotland, who have withdrawn from the communion of the Established Church...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. attributive. ΚΠ 1833 J. S. Sands Poems 51 He raised a kirk himsel' alane, Just on the great Seceder plan. 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 16/1 The Seceder meeting-house. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 544 Which I had overheard in my cousin the Seceder minister's house. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1755 |
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