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the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.

Placed under, or covered by, a bond, as for the payment of duties, or for conformity to coertain regulations. Bonded goods, goods placed in a bonded warehouse; goods, for the duties on which bonds are given at the customhouse. -- Bonded warehouse, a warehouse in which goods on which the duties are unpaid are stored un…

hich supports or strengthens. "The ground pillar and buttress of the good old cause of nonconformity." South. Flying buttress. See Flying buttress.

Adherence or conformity to the system of doctrine held by all parts of the orthodox Christian church; the doctrine so held; orthodoxy.

Practical conformity of one's inward and outward life to the spirit of the Christian religion

The act of comparing the copy of any paper with its original to ascertain its conformity.

With conformity or in conformity; suitably; agreeably.

Conformity. [R.] Marston.

The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.

Living or acting in conformity with one's belief or professions. It was utterly to be at once a consistent Quaker and a conspirator. Macaulay.

statute of an emperor quite hid under a crust of dross. Addison. Below this icy crust of conformity, the waters of infidelity lay dark and deep as ever. Prescott.

Quality of being customable; conformity to custom. [Obs.]

to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical. A miniser deprived for inconformity. Bacon.

Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault.

Separation from an established church, especially that of England; nonconformity. It is the dissidence of dissent and the protestantism of the Protestant religion. Burke.

Diverging from, or lacking conformity to, a type.

Careful observance of method and conformity to truth; as, exactness in accounts or business. He had . . . that sort of exactness which would have made him a respectable antiquary. Macaulay.

To infect capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to execute a traitor.

One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.

In conformity with expectation. [R.] Walpole.