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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1666-1678
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Non-conform(e, a. [Conform(e a. 1 d; appar. chiefly Sc. (see OED. for later examples).] Non-conformist. (Applied to dissenting ministers of the presbyterian party during the Restoration period.) — 1666 Galloway Synod 70.
To be married or to have their children baptised by any nonconforme ministers 1678 J. Brown Hist. Indulgence (1783) 178.
Besides the ministers indulged, as said is, there was a great company of non-conform ministers … who they supposed either did, or might, thereafter hold conventicles (as they are called) 1678 Ib. 272.
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