Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Nonjuror
subs. (old).—See quot.
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c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. NONJURORS. Clergymen and others (Officers in the Army, Navy, etc.) That refus’d to take the Oaths to King William and Queen Mary, and were turn’d out of their Livings and Employments.
