Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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ADAMITE, n. Sc. usage: a follower or supporter of William Adams, minister at Humbie, who refused to subscribe to the Confession of Faith after the Revolution and, after leaving the Church under suspicion of Jacobitism and Episcopacy in 1714, became a printer and pamphleteer. Hist.Sc. 1732 P. Walker Remarkable Passages 65:
Scotland, which is all one Spirit of Delusion, Division, and Confusion of Gibbites, . . . Howdonites, Adamites, McMillanites.
