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insurrectionary, a. (n.)|ɪnsəˈrɛkʃənərɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ary.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of insurrection; addicted to insurrection.
1796Burke Regic. Peace iv. Wks. IX. 44 On their murderous insurrectionary system, their own lives are not sure for an hour. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. iii. i, This huge Insurrectionary Movement..has swept away Royalty, Aristocracy, and a King's life. 1891Spectator 13 June, As a..fact, London is the least insurrectionary of cities.
2. humorous. Tending to raise itself.
1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 28 A sign-board presented at either end an insurrectionary bottle. Ibid. 211 His trousers working up..above his knees, an insurrectionary movement which I also was unable to suppress in my own.
B. n. A person who engages in insurrection.
1893Nation (N.Y.) 9 Feb. 95/3 All Spanish traditions of law and order are so bound up with Catholicism that religious innovators, like the Protestant missionaries, necessarily seem insurrectionaries. |