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societarian, a. and n.|səʊsaɪɪˈtɛərɪən|
[f. societ-y, after other words in -arian. Cf. F. sociétaire.]
A. adj. Societary; socialistic.
1822Lamb Elia i. Compl. Decay of Beggars, The all⁓sweeping besom of societarian reformation. Ibid., The..caprice of any fellow-creature, or set of fellow-creatures, parochial or societarian. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. (1851) II. 19 He could have no sympathy with utilitarian liberaux or societarian philanthropists. 1900Speaker 3 Feb. 476 The return to Greek societarian ideas is now a commonplace.
B. n.
1. One who believes in or advocates some form of socialism; a socialist.
1842Nonconformist II. 809 Your communitarians, or societarians of modern days. a1866J. Grote Exam. Utilit. Philos. iv. (1870) 62, I should myself be inclined rather to call Mr. Mill a societarian, if we must have new and sectarian words, than an utilitarian.
2. One who moves in or is a member of fashionable society.
1891Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 2 Jan. 2/3 ‘Societarians’ is a new term for the fashionable four hundred. 1893Cornh. Mag. Sept. 246 Second to none in that varied knowledge required nowadays of the successful societarian.
Hence socieˈtarianism.
a1866J. Grote Exam. Utilit. Philos. iv. (1870) 71 What I have called his [Mill's] ‘societarianism’ would have been superfluous. |