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Webster 1913 Edition

Dissident

Dis′si-dent

,
Adj.
[L.
dissidens
,
-entis
, p. pr. of
dissidere
to sit apart, to disagree;
dis-
+
sedere
to sit: cf. F.
dissident
. See
Sit
.]
No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different.
Our life and manners be
dissident
from theirs.
Robynson (More’s Utopia).

Dis′si-dent

,
Noun.
(Eccl.)
One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.
The
dissident
, habituated and taught to think of his dissidenc[GREEK] as a laudable and necessary opposition to ecclesiastical usurpation.
I. Taylor.

Webster 1828 Edition

Dissident

DISSIDENT

,
Adj.
[L., to disagree; to sit.] Not agreeing.

DISSIDENT

,
Noun.
A dissenter; one who separates from the established religion; a word applied to the members of the Lutheran, Calvinistic and Greek churches in Poland.

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