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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Burgher \Burgh"er\, n. [From burgh; akin to D. burger, G. b["u]rger, Dan. borger, Sw borgare See {Burgh}.] 1. A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place any inhabitant of a borough. 2. (Eccl. Hist.) A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess ``the true religion professed within the realm''), the opposite party being called antiburghers. Note: These parties arose among the Presbyterians of Scotland, in 1747, and in 1820 reunited under the name of the ``United Associate Synod of the Secession Church.'' From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: burgher n 1: a citizen of an English borough [syn: {burgess}] 2: a member of the middle class [syn: {bourgeois}]
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