Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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HOWDENITE, n. Also Howdonite. Appar. a follower of John Halden, an extreme Covenanter of the late 17th c. See D. H. Fleming Six Saints (1901) II. 214.Sc. a.1700 in P. Walker Remark. Passages (1732) 64:
All one spirit of delusion, division, and confusion of Gibbites, Russelites, Harlites, Howdonites, Adamites, McMillanites, and of glancing Glassites lately start up. Sc. 1728 P. Walker Remark. Passages A. Peden 127:
These Dissenters of Harlites, Howdenites, M'Millanites.Sc. 1818 Scott H. Midlothian xviii.:
I am not a MacMillanite, or a Russelite, or a Hamiltonian, or a Harleyite, or a Howdenite — I will be led by the nose by none.
