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noun

Seceder n.

One who secedes.

(Eccl. Hist.) One of a numerous body of Presbyterians in Scotland who seceded from the communion of the Established Church, about the year 1733, and formed the Secession Church, so called.

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"Seceder" Quotes from Famous Books

... last sound of the drum passed out of hearing, when the elastic thunder of a fresh one claimed attention. The truth being, that the Junction Club of Ipley and Hillford, whose colours were yellow and blue, was a seceder from the old-established Hillford Club, on which it had this day shamefully stolen a march by parading everywhere in the place of it, and disputing not only ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... in the little Seceder congregation at Blue Mound. Vehicles denoting various degrees of prosperity were beginning to arrive before the white meeting-house that stood in a patch of dog-fennel by ...

— The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories • Margaret Collier Graham

... auld faithfu' servant, and ye wad nae doot gie him the offices o' the Church?"—"Na, minister," said his friend, not quite liking this allusion to his priestly offices, "I didna dee that, for ye see he turned Seceder afore he deed, an' I buried him like a beast." He then rode ...

— The Jest Book - The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings • Mark Lemon

... the recreant, the apostate, the only seceder of our family from the just cause, who speaks thus?" said the old woman lifting her ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 • Various