Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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IRVINGITE. A popular name, now obs., for a member of the Catholic Apostolic Church, a body which formed itself in 1832 around Edward Irving (1792–1834), of Annan, a minister of the Church of Scotland in London, later expelled for heresy.
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