nonconductor (nonkonduktor)

A substance which does not conduct or transmit a particular form of energy (specifically, heat or electricity), or which transmits it with difficulty: thus, wool is a non-conductor of heat; gla and dry wood are non - conductors of electricity. See conductor, 6, electricity, and heat. nonconforming (non-kon-fôrming), a. [ or refusing to con form; specifically, refusing to comply with the requisitions Act Uniformity, or to conform to the forms and regulations of the Church of England. See nonconformist. The non-conforming ministers were prohibited, upon a penalty of forty pounds for every offence, to come, unle only in pa ing upon the road, within five miles of any city, corporation,.. or place where they had been ministers, or had preached, after the act of uniformity. Locke, Letter from a Person of Quality. [ nonconformist (non-kon-fôr'mist), n. + conformist.] 1. One who does not conform to some law or usage, especially to some ecclesiastical law. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. Emerson, E ays, 1st ser., p. 43. 2. Specifically, in Eng. hist., one of those clergymen who refused to subscribe the Act of Uniformity pa ed in 1662, demanding "a ent and consent" to everything contained in the Book of Common Prayer, and by extension any liturgy of the Church of England. See dis one who refuses to conform to the order and senter, 2. On his death-bed he declared himself a Non -conformist, and had a fanatic preacher to be his spiritual guide. Swift , A Nonconformist, from the first, was not an opponent of the general system of Uniformity. He was a churchman who differed from other churchmen on certain matters touching Order, though agreeing with them in the rest of the discipline and government of the Church.. In the following generation it took wider ground, and came to involve the whole of Church government, and the difference between prelacy and presbyterianism. R. W. Dizon, Hist. Church of Eng., xvii. 3. In entom., the noctuid moth Xylina zinckeni: an English collectors' name, applied in distinction from X. conform is.=Syn. 2. Di enter, etc. See non-conformitancyt (non-kon-for'mi-tan-si), n. [ heretic. Officers ecclesiastical did prosecute presentments, rather against non - conformitancy of ministers and people. Bp. Hacket , Abp. Williams, ii. 44. ( Davies .) non-conformitantt (non-kon-fôr'mi-tant), n. [ IMG:content-1436.png:[blocks in formation] A conformity or nonconformity to it [the will of our Maker] determines their actions to be morally good or evil. Watts . Wherever there is disagreement with a current belief, H. Spencer , Study of Sociol., ix. 2. Specifically, in eccles, usage: (a) The refusal to conform to the rites, tenets, or polity of an established or state church, and especially of the Church of England. Happy will be that reader whose mind is disposed by his [Watts's] verses or his prose to imitate him in all but his non - conformity . Johnson, Watts. His scruples have gained for Hooper the title of father of Nonconformity. R. W. Dixon, Hist. Church of Eng., xvii. (b) The doctrines or usages of those English Protestants who do not conform to or unite with the Church of England. The grand pillar and buttre of nonconformity . South. To the notions and practice of America, sprung out of the loins of Nonconformity , religious establishments are unfamiliar. M. Arnold, Nineteenth Century, XIX. 660. non const at (non kon's tat). [L.: non , not; con stat , 3d pers. sing. ind. pres. of const are , stand together, agree: see constant .] It does not appear; it is not clear or plain: a phrase used in legal language by way of answer to or comment on a statement or an argument. non-contagionist (non-kon-ta' jon-ist), n. One who holds that a disease is not propagated by contagion.