1) Burgess 2) Citizen 3) Englishman 4) Middle class citizen 5) Schism in Christianity
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1) Inhabitant
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- a citizen of an English borough
- a member of the middle class
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[Church history] In the Scottish church of the 18th and 19th centuries, a burgher was a member of that party amongst the seceders which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath. The burgess oath was that oath a town burgess was required to swear on taking office. The secession church in Scotland split in 1747 into the Burghers and the An...
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• (n.) A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess `the true religion professed within the realm`), the opposite party being called antiburghers. • (n.) A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a bo...
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(from the article `Sri Lanka`) ...more than one-eighth of the total population belongs to the former group. Muslims, who trace their origin back to Arab traders of the 8th century, ...
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A citizen of a city; a freeman who is a member of a guild.
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Term used from the 11th century to describe citizens of
burghs who were freemen of a burgh and had the right to participate in its government. They usually had to possess a house within the burgh. ...
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Burgh'er noun [ From
burgh ; akin to Dutch
burger , German
bürger , Danish
borger , Swedish
borgare . See
Burgh .]
1. A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.
2. (Eccl. ...Found on
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Obs. A citizen of a borough, usually owning a house within the city limits, and prosperous enough to hire others to work for them.
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an inhabitant of a town, esp. a member of the middle class; citizen.
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