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† ˈsessioner Sc. Obs.
Also 7 -air.
[f. session n. + -er1.]
1. A member of the Court of Session.
1597R. Bruce Apol. in Wodrow Life (1843) 169 We take us not to his Majesty, neither to the nobility of Scotland..; we take us only to the Sessioners. 1610Jas. VI in Reg. Privy Council Scot. VIII. 613 The saidis President and Sessionaris sall weir these habitis upoun the streitis of Edinburgh induring the tyme of sessioun. 1641Sc. Acts Chas. I (1814) V. 403/1 And in Lyke maner the sessioners with the advise and approbation of the most part of that hous, wch electiones made in the intervall shalbe allowed or disallowed. a1657Sir J. Balfour Ann. Scot. Hist. Wks. 1825 II. 129 That from hencefurth [1626] no judge or sessioner should be a priuey counseller.
2. A member of a kirk-session.
1643in Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) App. 41/2 That none win to the Sessions loft till the Sessioners be placed. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (Bannatyne Club) I. 173 Ilk minister haveing ane ruleing elder chosen out of the worthiest of the sessioners of his presbiterie. 1682J. Finlay in Cloud of Witnesses (1778) 193 They..now are sessioners to this Curate. 1683in Wodrow Hist. Suff. Ch. Scot. (1722) II. 317 That the Ministers give in upon Oath a List of their Sessioners. |