| 单词 |
revolutioner |
| 释义 |
revoˈlutioner
[f. revolution n. + -er1.]
1. a. A supporter or approver of the Revolution of 1688. Now only Hist.
1695Whether Preserving Prot. Relig. etc. 22 Nor can his Majesty's Authority..be questioned by our Revolutioners and Abdicators themselves. 1706in Maidment Bk. Scot. Pasquils (1868) 372 The staunch Revolutioners pretend all their care is securing religion. c1728Earl of Ailesbury Mem. (1890) 620 A member of the House of Commons, supported by all the revolutioners, brought thither the sermon in print. 1758Smollett Hist. Eng. (1800) I. 175 The people were divided into three parties, namely, the Williamites, the Jacobites, and the discontented Revolutioners. 1896J. Mackinnon Union Eng. & Scot. 374 The Jacobites..exulted in the unanimity of sentiment, which inspired Revolutioner and Cameronian alike.
b. One who took part in the American Revolution.
1835D. Crockett Tour 52 General Morton is a revolutioner, and an officer in the society of old soldiers called the ‘Cincinnati Society’.
2. A revolutionary.
1803W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. I. 351/2 It is but too true, that there have been very honest revolutioners of the most exaggerated sentiments. 1831Lincoln Herald 22 July 3/6 Take a Revolutioner from Belgium or France. |
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