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  1. In religion, originally a member of the
  2. Puritan section of the Church of England
  3. clergy who, in the Elizabethan age, refused
  4. to conform to certain practices, for example
  5. the wearing of the surplice and kneeling to
  6. receive Holy Communion. After 1662 the term
  7. was confined to those who left the church
  8. rather than conform to the Act of Uniformity
  9. requiring the use of the Prayer Book in all
  10. churches. It is now applied mainly to members
  11. of the Free churches.
  12.