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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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ADHERENT, n. Sc. Ch. usage: a (young) person who attends the services of a Presbyterian church but is not in full communion with it.Sc. 1888 J. Rankin Handbk. Ch. Scot. 375:
There is no means of accurately measuring the position of the Free Church in the Highlands, as the communicants are not returned; and during the period under comparison the proportion and ages of adherents given have been twice changed. Kcb. 1897 Crockett Lad's Love ix.:
On this occasion She had to do with a Cameronian elder and not with a mere adherent. Sc. 1964 J. T. Cox Practice Ch. Scot. 19:
Adherents over twenty-one years of age may take part . . . in the same way as if they were members in full communion.