1) Beatnik 2) Disobedient 3) Dissentient
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1) Dissentient 2) Unorthodox
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one who refused to attend Church of England services.
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one who refuses to attend Catholic church services; nonconformist
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• (a.) Obstinate in refusal; specifically, in English history, refusing to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in the churc, or to conform to the established rites of the church; as, a recusant lord. • (n.) A person who refuses to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in matters of religion; as, a Roman Catholic recusant, who acknowledg...
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(from the article `Lucy, Sir Thomas`) ...of Parliament as knight of the shire for Warwick, was a justice of the queen`s peace and a member of the council for the Marches of Wales (to ...
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In England, those who refused to attend Anglican church services, especially applied to Catholics. The Acts of Uniformity of 1552 and 1559 imposed fines on those who refused to attend, and it was...
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1. One who is obstinate in refusal; one standing out stubbornly against general practice or opinion. 'The last rebellious recusants among the European family of nations.' (De Quincey) ... 2. A person who refuses to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in matters of religion; as, a Roman Catholic recusant, who acknowledges the supremacy of the pope...
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technically, anyone who frequently absented themselves from Sunday service in church; in practice, generally used to refer specifically to 'papists', Roman Catholics. This might be prosecuted by indictment, but more often by presentment to either secular or ecclesiastical courts; such prosecutions are increasingly rare after the 1688 Revolution wh...
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Re·cu'sant (-z
a t; 277)
adjective [ Latin
recusans ,
-antis , present participle of
recure to refuse, to oject to; prefix
re- re +
causa a cause, pretext: confer French
récusant . See
Cause , and confer
Ruse .] Obstinate in refusal; s...
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Re·cu'sant noun 1. One who is obstinate in refusal; one standing out stubbornly against general practice or opinion. « The last rebellious
recusants among the European family of nations.»
De Quincey. 2. (Eng. Hist.) A person who refuses to acknowledg...
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A recusant is a person who refuses to attend his parish church on holy days. Attendance was rendered compulsory by an Act of 1581, and many other statutes to the same effect passed down until 1688. The Religious Disabilities Act of 1846 abolished fines for non-attendance and relieved in toto those who usually attend some other place of worship, suc...
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In English history, after the Reformation, the recusants were people who refused or neglected to attend divine services on Sundays and holidays in the Established Church, or to worship according to its forms. Heavy penalties were formerly inflicted on such persons, but they pressed far more lightly on the simple recusant or nonconformist than on th...
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[
adj] - refusing to submit to authority
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adjective refusing to submit to authority; `the recusant electors...cooperated in electing a new Senate`- Mary W.Williams
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