| 释义 |
† Maratism Obs.
[f. name of Jean Paul Marat, a leader in the French Revolution, assassinated by Charlotte Corday in 1793: see -ism.]
The anarchic doctrines advocated by Marat. Also † Maratist, one who supports these doctrines. † Maratize v. trans. (nonce-wd.), to assassinate as Marat was assassinated.
1793A. Young Examp. France (ed. 3) 157 The red hot Maratism of the miscreant Society. 1794Sporting Mag. IV. 106 In pursuit of Robespierre, whom she vowed to Maratise in due time. 1795A. Barruel Hist. Clergy during French Rev. 323 One must have spent four years in France amidst the Constitutionalists, the Girondins, the Maratists, and the Jacobins of every description, to conceive [etc.]. 1798Jefferson Writ. (1859) IV. 254, I have contemplated every event which the Maratists of the day perpetrate. |