agitationaladj.
/ˌadʒᵻˈteɪʃn̩(ə)l/, /ˌadʒᵻˈteɪʃən(ə)l/, U.S. /ˌædʒəˈteɪʃ(ə)nəl/ Of or relating to agitation; concerned with the promotion of discussion on public questions.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > public excitement > [adjective]
turbulent1609
agitational1844
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [adjective] > relating to agitation
agitational1844
1844 D. Urquhart Annexation of Texas 81 We much doubt whether internal resistance will be sufficient to frustrate this design... Such would not be even advantageous to the promotors; it would lose thereby to them its agitational value.
1866 Morning Star 14 Feb. The denunciations..which have been published are all of them so purely political, so purely agitational—if we may coin a word.
1936 Stage June 34/3 The agitational kind of propaganda has gone, and with it a large measure of the didacticism which characterized playwriting in Russia from 1918 to 1932.
1992 Sunday Times of India 19 Apr. 23/6 Both Forward Bloc and the BJP announced several agitational programmes to voice their protests.
2006 West Austral. (Perth) (Nexis) 28 Jan. (Features section) 8 Apparently, an allegedly racist organisation calling itself Australia First distributed agitational leaflets during the disturbances.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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- tariffmovement
- tariffoffice
- tariffparty
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- tariffprotected
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