Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who intrudes, or favors intrusion; specifically, one of those in the Established Church of Scotland who denied the right of a parish or congregation to resist or object to the settlement or appointment of an obnoxious minister by a patron.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who intrudes; especially, one who favors the appointment of a clergyman to a parish, by a patron, against the wishes of the parishioners.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical One who favours the
appointment of aclergyman to aparish , by apatron , against the wishes of theparishioners .
Etymologies
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intrusion + -ist
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