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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A member of one of the two sections into which the Scotch Secession Church was split in 1747, by a controversy on the lawfulness of accepting a clause in the oath required to be taken by burgesses declaratory of “their profession and allowance of the true religion professed within the realm and authorized by the laws thereof.”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Eccl. Hist.) One who seceded from the Scottish Burghers (1747), deeming it improper to take the Burgess oath.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Scotland A faction of the Scottish Presbyterian Church that refused to take the Burgess Oath in 1747; since reunited.

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