non intrusionist (nonintrozhonist)

Scottish eccles. hist., one who was opposed to the forcible intrusion, by patrons, of unacceptable clergymen upon objecting congregations. The non-intrusionists formulated their doctrine in a resolution presented by Thomas Chalmers to the General A embly of the Church of Scotland in 1833, and in 1843 withdrew in a nonnat body from the established church and founded the Free Church of Scotland. See disruption.