Free Kirkn.

1843 J. Robertson Fall of Kirk 10 The free Kirk will be to the upper classes of the towns, and the middle classes of the agricultural districts, a most powerful teacher of [etc.].

1846 W. Cross Disruption xl. 444 We have resolved to shake oursel's oot o' the trammels o' pawtronage at ance and for ever mair, by joining the Free Kirk o' Scotland, and getting a minister o' our ain pick and wale.

1897 ‘F. Mackenzie’ Sprays of Northern Pine xvii Dinna ye mind yon ablach o' a mannie that was preachin' i' the Free Kirk a twal'month past?

1944 P. Boardman Patrick Geddes i. 9 With the Captain a leading elder in the Free Kirk and his wife of militantly religious forebears, there was naturally much churchgoing on Sunday.

1985 S. Hood Storm from Paradise (1988) 9 He had felt obliged to accept the duties of elder and treasurer of the Free Kirk.

1864 G. O. Trevelyan in Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 89/2 It may be questioned whether even an ardent Free Kirker would not think the most unpremeditated discourse..dearly purchased.

1881 Sat. Rev. 23 July 116/2 This egregious assumption of the Freekirkers.

1901 Musical Times Oct. 649/1 The introduction of an organ—which the old Free-Kirkers looked upon as the devil in disguise.

1993 B. C. Murison in S. J. Brown & M. Fry Scotl. in Age of Disruption viii. 140 Burns and his fellow Free Kirkers attempted to expand their support in British North America by making a deliberate appeal to Secession Presbyterians.