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or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from. The bill passed . . . without a dissenting voice. Hallam. Opinions in which multitudes of men dissent from us. Addison.

Disagreeing; contrary; differing; -- opposed to consentaneous. [R.] Barrow.

Dissentaneous; inconsistent. [Obs.] Milton.

Dissension. [Obs.] W. Browne.

One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or declares his disagreement.

The spirit or principles of dissenters. Ed. Rev.

To throw into a state of dissent. [R.] Feltham.

Disagreeing; declaring dissent; dissenting. -- n.

Marked by dissensions; apt to breed discord; quarrelsome; contentious; factious. -- Dis*sen"tious*ly, adv.

Disagreeing; inconsistent. [Obs.] Feltham.

verture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural. [He] made the like advances to the dissenters. Swift.

A chapel for dissenters. [Eng.]

nt; a bland form. The freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank. Palfrey.

xceptive or adversative; as, the House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind. Now abideth faith hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. 1 Cor. xiii. 13. When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom. Pro…

In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.

For the most part; mostly. Those parts of the kingdom where the . . . estates of the dissenters chiefly lay. Swift.

conforms to the Church of England, or to the Established Church, as distinguished from a dissenter or nonconformist.

; esp., such an assembly held privately, as in times of persecution, by Nonconformists or Dissenters in England, or by Covenanters in Scotland; -- often used opprobriously, as if those assembled were heretics or schismatics. The first Christians could never have had recourse to nocturnal or clandestine conventicles til…

A dissentient. [R.] Bp. Hacket.

To dissent. [Obs.]