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Nonconformist

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Dissenters Chapels Act

Dissenters Chapels Act (7 & 8 Vict. c. 45), (statutory title, 'The (English) Nonconformist Chapels Act, 1844'), an Act passed in 1844 for the relief of Unitarians, though it applies to Nonconformists

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beatnik

a member of the Beat Generation a nonconformist in dress and behavior

conformist

to current customs or rules or styles as underneath the radical image teenagers are surprisingly conformist Opposite of nonconformist

Separatist

withdraws from a church to which he has belonged a seceder from an established church a dissenter a nonconformist a schismatic a sectary

Non-commissioned officer

being subject to this Act. [Army Act, 1950 (46 of 1950), s. 3 (xv)] [s. 132(3)(d), Cr. P.C.] Nonconformist. See DISSENTERS.

Marriage

any place, whether consecrated or not, see Doe Dem. Egremont v. Grazebrook, (1843) 4 QB 406. Marriage of Nonconformists.--The marriage of dissenters in general, according to their own rites, was first provided for by the (English) Marriage

Religion

is enjoined by the Act of Uniformity (14 Car. 2, c. 4); but restrictions on religious worship by Nonconformists are removed by the Toleration Act (1 W. & M. c. 15), and other Acts. The Roman Catholic

Toleration Act

Church of England (except Papists and persons denying the Trinity) were relieved from such of the Acts against Nonconformists as prevented their assembling for religious worship according to their own forms, or otherwise restrained their religious liberty,

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