resolutioner

[Eng. resolution; -er. ] 1. Ord. Lang.: One who joins in a resolution or declaration. "A great division followed in the kirk; those who ad. hered to these resolutions were called the public resolu tioners."- Burnet: Hist. Own Time , bk. i. 2. Scottish Church Hist .: When the Scotch, hav. ing induced Charles II. to take the Covenant, and crowned him king, had been severely defeated at Dunbar by Oliver Cromwell (Sept. 3, 1650), their Parliament abolished a certain Act of Cla es which prevented many royalists entering the army. The larger section of the Scottish Church approved of the step on account of the emergency, a smaller but zealous party disapproved; the former were called Resolutioners, the latter Protesters. Crom well supported the latter. The sufferings through which both pa ed after the restoration in 1660 again fused them into one.