Persons who rejected the authority of the Protestant Church
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            A Protestant in a non-Anglican church (eg. a Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Moravian).
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            a person who dissents from some established policy 
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            One who did not belong to the established church, especially the Church of England in the American colonies
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            name given a person who refused to belong to the established Church of England.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            The term dissenter (from the Latin dissentire, “to disagreeâ€), labels one who dissents or disagrees in matters of opinion, belief, etc. In the social and religious history of England and Wales, however, it refers particularly to a member of a religious body in England or Wales which has, for one reason or another, separated from the Established Church.