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ˌparliamenˈtarian, n. and a.|-ˈɛərɪən|
Also 7 parla-.
[f. as parliamentary + -an.]
A. n.
†1. One who accepts a religion or church ordained or ruled by parliament. Obs. Cf. parliament church, parliament n.1 9.
1613E. Hoby Countersnarle 72 Yet doth hee make no other reckoning of you, then of so many Parlamentarians, whose Religion is steared by the Helme of the State.
2. Hist. One who took the side or was in the service of the Parliament, as against the King, during the contests and Civil War of the 17th c.[Whitelocke Mem. (1682) 57/2, sub anno 1642: And now came up the Names of Parties, Royallists, and Parliamentarians; Cavaliers, and Roundheads.] 1644in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. II. 746 The Parliamentarians were forced to retreat in haste. 1648Petit. of East. Assoc. 19 Under the titles of Malignants, and Parliamentarians. 1649Bounds Publ. Obed. (1650) 40 So many here were insnared, both Royallists and Parliamentarians. 1736Neal Hist. Purit. III. 39 His Majesty..gave directions to seize the lands and goods of the Parliamentarians. 1831R. Vaughan Mem. Stuart Dynasty II. 121 The parliamentarians were found chiefly in the metropolis and its neighbourhood.
3. One versed and skilful in parliamentary usages and tactics; a skilled and experienced parliamentary debater.
1834Oxford Univ. Mag. I. 39 A veteran parliamentarian. 1894Westm. Gaz. 15 Mar. 5/1 Parliamentarians were proud of the greatest Parliamentarian of the century.
4. Applied to a member of a French parlement, or of a foreign ‘parliament’.
1893A. Ogle Marq. D'Argenson 33 He took refuge, like many an irate, but thrifty parliamentarian, in the Rue Quincampoix.
B. adj. = parliamentary a., esp. in sense 1 b.
1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. (R.), Being in a manner undone by the severities of the parliamentarian visitors in 1648. 1823Scott Peveril ii, The parliamentarian Major was considerably embarrassed by this proposal. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 25 The Parliamentarian soldier was often seen endeavouring to adapt his life to a mistaken application of the Bible. 1882–3in Schaff Encycl. I. 381 Canada is a self-governing country, with a parliamentarian system.
Hence parliamenˈtarianism, the parliamentary principle or system.
1879M. Pattison Milton 137 The Greeks of Constantinople..were not more infatuated than these pedantic common⁓wealth men with their parliamentarianism when Charles II. was at Calais. 1884Athenæum 27 Dec. 831/2 M. Hubert proves that the Belgian constitution of 1831 was drawn..partly also from English parliamentarianism. |