单词 | non-subscriber |
释义 | non-subscribern. 1. Christian Church. A person who fails or refuses to subscribe to a religious creed, practice, etc. Now chiefly historical.In later use often referring to a member of the section of Irish Presbyterians which arose c1720 and opposed the imposition of subscription to the Westminster Confession of 1643. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [noun] > rejection or non-acceptance > one who rejects rejecter1570 abjurer1583 rejector1584 non-subscriver1590 non-subscriber1599 non-scriber1650 discarder1722 repudiator1870 society > faith > worship > vow > non-jurancy > [noun] > one characterized by non-subscriber1599 non-scriber1650 non-swearer1690 nonjurant1691 nonjuror1691 1599 (title) A triall of subscription, by way of a preface vnto certaine subscribers; and, reasons for lesse rigour against non-subscribers. 1650 (title) A brief apology for all non subscribers, and looking glasse for all apostate, perjured prescribers, and subscribers of the new engagement. 1727 Narr. Prov. Synods Presbyterian Ireland 36 The Ministers, who in a few days after [in June 1721] were distinguish'd by the name of Non-subscribers. 1859 Biblical Repertory Oct. 727 The practical question of subscription to the Westminster Confession was decided by a large majority against the latitudinarians, who were now called Non-subscribers. 1886 Dict. National Biogr. VII. 62/2 Browne had taken the side of the non-subscribers, who resisted the imposition of a Trinitarian test. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 53/2 The ‘Non-subscribers’..were cut off, with due ban and solemnity, from the Irish Presbyterian Church. 1994 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 8 Jan. 8 Some zealots have now elevated belief in the VB [= Virgin Birth] to a fundamental doctrine of the faith... Writers have called on VB non-subscribers to leave the church. 2. A person who does not pay a subscription. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > contribution > [noun] > subscription > one who > one who does not subscribe non-subscriber1713 1713 London Gaz. No. 5131/4 Subscribers pay one Guinea, and Non-Subscribers five Guineas Entrance. 1816 T. J. Howell Stranger in Shrewsbury 65 The public libraries in Shrewsbury are wretchedly furnished except one, and to that entrance is almost denied to strangers and non-subscribers. 1884 List of Subscribers (London & Globe Telephone Co.) 3 Subscribers..must not allow non-subscribers to use their instruments for the transmission of messages. 1950 Public Opinion Q. 14 486/1 What we are trying to measure may be prejudice toward a given minority group,..readiness by non-subscribers to assume telephone service, and the like. 1990 N.Y. Times 14 Aug. b 2/6 A ‘dial a porn’ caller would receive a scrambled message, similar to the ones cable television companies send nonsubscribers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1599 |
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