13th edition of the britain chambers dictionary

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39), asserts that Fletcher broached the successful proposal to make a profession of presbyterianism part of the test which was imposed by that parliament (cf.

Sir John Dalrymple, in a statement seemingly unsupported (pt. He was again a commissioner for East Lothian in the Scotch parliament which met in July 1681, and he industriously opposed the measures of Lauderdale's successor, the Duke of York.

He was punished as a malcontent by having soldiers quartered on him, and a petition which he and others presented, complaining of this proceeding as ‘contrare to law,’ was ‘much resented’ by the council ( Fountainhall, Hist. He voted in it with the Duke of Hamilton in opposition to Lauderdale's policy. 583) that ‘a James Fletcher’ was one of the commissioners for East Lothian being undoubtedly incorrect. 214 Members of Parliament: Return to the House of Commons, 1878, pt. 270–1), the statement in the official lists of that assembly ( Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, viii. Observes, ‘Accompt of the Convention of Estates,’ &c., pp. In the Scotch convention of estates which met in June 1678 Fletcher sat as a commissioner for his county (, Hist. In July 1680 he was rebuked by the Scotch privy council for obstructing the drafting of a number of men from the militia into the standing force maintained to overawe presbyterian malcontents ( Fountainhall, Hist. While young, he made a tour on the continent, and after his return to Salton soon became a marked man through his local opposition to Lauderdale. 24), speaks of Fletcher as ‘a Scotch gentleman of great parts and many virtues, but a most violent republican, and extremely passionate.’ Fletcher became one of the most accomplished Scotchmen of his time. Their acquaintance long survived this connection, and Burnet, in the ‘History of his own Time’ (iii. 6) to have expressed a desire on his deathbed that Burnet should superintend the education of his son, then a boy of ten, and this Burnet seems to have done during the remaining five years of his stay at Salton. In his epicedial ‘discourse’ on his patron Burnet describes him as a man of singular devoutness, very charitable, and somewhat a cultivator of philosophy and science. Michael Rundell said: “In a same sex relationship two men are probably not going to refer to themselves as ‘wife’, but if it’s two women, they might, so we need to keep an eye on that. FLETCHER, ANDREW (1655–1716), Scotch patriot, born in 1655 at Salton (formerly Saltoun), East Lothian, was the son and heir of Sir Robert Fletcher (1625–1664), a country gentleman of good estate, at whose pressing instance Gilbert Burnet, afterwards bishop of Salisbury, became parish minister of Salton in 1665. Macmillan’s editor-in-chief said the organisation was monitoring changes to the use of “husband” and “wife” to see if it would change those words as well. The dictionary’s definition of the institution is now, “the relationship between two people who are husband and wife, or a similar relationship between people of the same sex”.

Last August, the Macmillan Dictionary redefined the word “marriage” to include same-sex couples. Husband is now defined as “a man to whom someone is married” and wife is “a woman to whom someone is married”.įurther words and phrases were added to Chambers Dictionary’s latest edition, including “sexting” – sending explicit text messages, and “YOLO”, short for “you only live once”.Īccording to Chambers, a word must demonstrate a “lasting influence on a language in order to avoid short-lived or faddy expressions being admitted”. The dictionary, first published in 1872, has also changed its definitions of husband and wife in order to reflect the change in the law. The dictionary now describes the institution as, “the ceremony, act or contract by which two people become married to each other”. Marriage has been redefined to be gender-neutral in the 13th edition of Chambers Dictionary.

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