Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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JUROR, n. = Jurant, n. Hence non-juror, one who refused to take the prescribed oath. Hist.Sc. 1730 T. Boston Memoirs (1852) 310:
I still kept communion with the jurors meeting with them in presbyteries and synods. The non-jurors at Edinburgh thought meet, that one should be sent to court, to represent the loyalty and good affection of that party to his Majesty, notwithstanding that they could not take the oath of abjuration imposed by law.Sc. 1766 Scots Mag. (Nov.) 573:
Ten years ago there were 800 nonjurors in this parish.Sc. 1905 W. L. Mathieson Scot. and Union 195:
Greenshields would probably have suffered no more serious molestation than his brethren, all of whom were non-jurors.
