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governmental, a.|gʌvənˈmɛntəl|
[f. government + -al1.]
Of or pertaining to government, or to the government of a country, etc.
1744F. Moore Voy. Georgia in Coll. Georgia Hist. Soc. (1840) I. 96 The governmental view..was, with numbers of free white people, well settled to strengthen the southern part of the English settlements. 1781S. Peters Hist. Connect. 171 One part out of seventy-three of all governmental taxes. Ibid. 286 A religious test..will ever keep all churchmen..from governmental employments in Connecticut. 1791Paine Rights of Man ii. Introd. (1792) 2 Emigrants..of diversified professions of religion, retiring from the governmental persecutions of the old world. 1804W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. II. 318 The contribution fonçière, and the recette exterieure are in fact the chief sources of governmental income. 1861Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. III. clvii. 163 They want to lay down a precedent, that there shall be no examination into governmental misdoings. 1879H. Spencer Data of Ethics xvi. §109. 285 What is the ethical warrant for governmental authority?
Hence governˈmentally adv.; also ˌgovernˈmentalism, a disposition to enlarge or render general the legitimate sphere of government activity; ˌgovernˈmentalist, one who entertains this disposition.
1848Tait's Mag. XV. 319 They have the fixed idea of Governmentalism... They wish that the Government, so that it be democratic, should dare all, do all, hold all. 188419th Cent. July 120 No book governmentally unorthodox was sanctioned. 1894Contemp. Rev. May 671 The chief purpose of human existence became..in the eyes of these governmentalists, to supply a State revenue out of blood and sweat. 1897Westm. Gaz. 9 Oct. 5/1 Any Governmentally-managed colony. |