An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language - Electric Scotland

CON [484] CON
kirk, not only because the Church of Rome, as our Reformers
universally believed, grossly misapplied the
latter, by appropriating it to herself, but also because
they viewed that of congregation, according to the
of the Lat. term from which it was
simple signification
formed, as more literally expressing the sense of the
Gr. word eicic\i;