Word Meanings - ANTIBURGHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who seceded from the Burghers , deeming it improper to take the Burgess oath.

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• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• DEEM
  OS. ad, D. doemen, OHG. tuommen, Icel. dæma, Sw. dömma, Dan. dömme, 1. To decide; to judge; to sentence; to condemn. Claudius . . . Was demed for to hang upon a tree. Chaucer. 2. To account; to esteem; to think; to judge; to hold in opinion;
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• IMPROPERTY
  Impropriety.
• BURGESS
  town, F. bourg village, fr. LL. burgus fort, city; from the German; 1. An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough. Blackstone. Note: "A burgess of a borough corresponds
• DEEMSTER
  A judge in the Isle of Man who decides controversies without process. Cowell.
• BURGESS-SHIP
  The state of privilege of a burgess. South.
• IMPROPERIA
  A series of antiphons and responses, expressing the sorrowful remonstrance of our Lord with his people; -- sung on the morning of the Good Friday in place of the usual daily Mass of the Roman ritual. Grove.
• BURGHERSHIP
  The state or privileges of a burgher.
• SECEDE
  To withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; to separate one's self by a solemn act; to draw off; to retire; especially, to withdraw from a political or religious body.
• SECEDER
  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. (more info) 1. One who secedes.
• IMPROPER
  1. Not proper; not suitable; not fitted to the circumstances, design, or end; unfit; not becoming; incongruous; inappropriate; indecent; as, an improper medicine; improper thought, behavior, language, dress. Follow'd his enemy king, and did him
• UNREDEEMED
  Not redeemed.
• REDEEM
  Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Gal. iii. 13. 5. To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem
• REDEEMER
  1. One who redeems. 2. Specifically, the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ.
• IRREDEEMABILITY
  The state or quality of being irredeemable; irredeemableness.
• REDEEMABLENESS
  The quality or state of being redeemable; redeemability.
• ADDEEM
  To award; to adjudge. "Unto him they did addeem the prise." Spenser.
• ADEEM
  To revoke, as a legacy, grant, etc., or to satisfy it by some other gift.
• FOREDEEM
  To recognize or judge in advance; to forebode. Udall. Laugh at your misery, as foredeeming you An idle meteor. J. Webster.
• IRREDEEMABLE
  Not redeemable; that can not be redeemed; not payable in gold or silver, as a bond; -- used especially of such government notes, issued as currency, as are not convertible into coin at the pleasure of the holder. -- Ir`re*deem"a*ble*ness, adv.
• REDEEMABLE
  1. Capable of being redeemed; subject to repurchase; held under conditions permitting redemption; as, a pledge securing the payment of money is redeemable. 2. Subject to an obligation of redemtion; conditioned upon a promise of redemtion; payable;