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- noun historical A follower of the 18th-century
secession movement from theChurch of Scotland .
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Examples
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Sergeant Hallyburton is a "Seceder", a member of the Amity
Sergeant Hallyburton, the First American Soldier Captured in the World War 1923
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The minister was proud of being not only a "Seceder" but a
Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878
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From these words it is evident, _first_, that Mr. Cargill was no _Seceder_, or of their mind, in this particular; and _second_, that, at the time, there were some who did cheat and impose upon their own consciences, by distinguishing (where there was no room for distinction) between the king's civil and ecclesiastical authority -- which distinction was condemned and testified against by all who were truly faithful to
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive The Reformed Presbytery
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The Covenanter or Seceder replies by asking -- "What iniquity have you or your fathers found in us, that you forsook our communion?"
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive The Reformed Presbytery
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Berwick road -- leave the excellent Seceder upon the sod, and toss up your bonnet decorated with the White Rose, to the glory and triumph of the clans!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various
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Samuel Hall's mother was inherited by Robert Hall, a strict churchman, a Seceder preacher, and he gave Mrs. Hall her freedom, taking his other slaves north with him and freeing them and there, still in the vicinity of Xenia, Ohio, the descendants of those freed slaves may be found.
Samuel Hall, 47 Years a Slave; A Brief Story of His Life Before and After Freedom Came to Him 1912
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But another and a much more important factor in the problem is to be found in the old Seceder ideal of the ministry in which he was trained and which he never lost.
Principal Cairns Cairns, John 1903
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There may be a reminiscence of this, due to its author's Seceder training, in a passage in Carlyle's
Principal Cairns Cairns, John 1903
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According to the Seceder view, there is no more sublime calling on earth than that of the Christian ministry, and that calling is one which concerns itself first and chiefly with the conversion of sinners and the edifying of saints.
Principal Cairns Cairns, John 1903
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Hutchison, minister of the parish, whose lair was on the broomy knowes of Howpaslet beside its ancient kirk, was answered by the keener, more intense tones of the Reverend William Henry Calvin, of the Seceder kirk, whose manse stood defiantly on an opposite hill, and dared the neighbourhood to come on.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
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