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Those Protestant Dissenters who maintain that each congrégation is an independent community, and has a right to make its own laws and choose its own minister. They rose in the time of Queen Elizabeth.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.