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Zapatist, n. and a.
Brit. |ˈzapətɪst|, U.S. |ˈzæpədəst|
[‹ the name of Emiliano Zapata (see Zapata n.) + -ist suffix, after Spanish Zapatista Zapatista n. Compare Zapatista n.]
A. n.
1. = Zapatista n. 1. Now hist.
1911N.Y. Times 30 Aug. 6/3 The Zapatists have thus far refused to recognize the Provisional Government. 1939B. D. Wolfe Diego Rivera xx. 253 Organs of the Comintern throughout the world were to discover..that he had never been a Leninist, but only a petty-bourgeois agrarian Zapatist (follower of Zapata) and had now become a bourgeois painter altogether. 1980G. Rudé Ideol. & Pop. Protest (1995) ii. iii. 70 A Memorial drawn up by the Zapatists in late September 1911.
2. = Zapatista n. 2.
1994Economist 8 Jan. 46/1 Few elsewhere may follow the Chiapas rebels' call to arms. Indeed some villagers have criticised the Zapatists, some of whose recruits say they were coerced. 2001Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 6 Mar. b5 Passing the bill, releasing political prisoners and withdrawing the army from various points in Chiapas are the Zapatists' conditions for agreeing once again to talk to the government and, eventually, to end the rebellion.
B. adj. (attrib.). = Zapatista adj.
1911Times 30 Oct. 5/1 (headline) Ministerial changes in Mexico. (The Zapatist rising). 1974Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 68 1352/1 The Zapatist facet of the Mexican revolution. 1994Economist (Nexis) 15 Jan. 39 Two weeks after the start of their quixotic rebellion, the ‘Zapatist’ peasants whose uprising in Chiapas state shocked the Mexican government on new year's day continue to elude its troops. |