Kirkist
English
Etymology
From kirk + -ist.
Noun
Kirkist (plural Kirkists)
- (now rare, historical) Someone who supports the Kirk, or Church of Scotland, especially with reference to Oliver Cromwell's Scottish campaign of 1650-1.
- 1983, Alasdair Gray, ‘Logopandocy’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012), p. 177:
- I answered that such freedom would be worse than the vilest slavery, for it would leave me free to do nothing but grappel till death with clusterfist creditors and esurient Kirkists […]
- 1983, Alasdair Gray, ‘Logopandocy’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012), p. 177: