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Webster 1913 Edition

(-bûrg′ẽr)

Noun.

(Eccl. Hist.)

One who seceded from the Scottish Burghers (1747), deeming it improper to take the Burgess oath.

antiburgher ‎(plural antiburghers)

(Scotland) A faction of the Scottish Presbyterian Church that refused to take the Burgess Oath in 1747; since reunited.