Dictionary entry

Dissident

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dis″si‐dent (?), a. [L. dissidens, -entis, p. pr. of dissidere to sit apart, to disagree; dis- + sedere to sit: cf. F. dissident. See Sit.] No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different.

Our life and manners be dissident from theirs. Robynson (More's Utopia).