单词 | constitutionalist |
释义 | constitutionalistn. 1. One who studies or writes on the (political) constitution. ΘΚΠ society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > legal knowledge or skill > one learned in the law > in specific branches or kinds of law civiliana1425 civilistc1550 common lawyer1552 Justinianist1588 tenurist1588 commoner1591 feudist1607 criminalista1631 criminista1631 Romanist1647 pundit1661 antecessor1753 constitutionalist1766 civil1776 publicist1795 codist1831 theologo-jurista1843 internationalist1855 Sabinian1862 Pandectist1895 1766 Ld. Mansfield Speech against Suspend. Prerog. If Mr. Locke's whole definition of prerogative is taken together..it will be found he perfectly agrees with what other sound constitutionalists have advanced. a1832 J. Mackintosh Hist. Revol. Eng. (1834) viii. 233 The most famous constitutionalists, the most skilful casuists. 1881 J. G. Fitch Lect. Teaching xiii. 390 With Hallam and Creasy and the constitutionalists. 2. An adherent or supporter of constitutional principles, or of a particular constitution. In end of 18th cent., an adherent of the constitution of the United States, or of the French Republic; in English politics, about 1870–80, often assumed as = conservative n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > constitutionalism > adherent of constitutioner1721 constitutionist1735 constitutionalist1782 constitutional1793 1782 J. Adams Wks. III. 353 Vaughan has a brother in Philadelphia, who has written him a long letter about the Constitutionalists and the Republicans. 1793 Dr. Burney Let. in F. Burney Diary & Lett. (1842) VI. 9 Loyal constitutionalists. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 564 This party was styled republicans; the other, constitutionalists [in Pennsylvania]. 1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 100 As being royalists or constitutionalists. 1831 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Jan. 247 The Portuguese and Spanish constitutionalists. 1868 Daily News 2 Dec. The party are now trying to get rid of it [the name Conservative]..Constitutionalist, tory, and tory democrat, are the names between which their choice wavers. 1879 M. Arnold Falkland in Mixed Ess. 213 Falkland was born a constitutionalist, a hater of all that is violent and arbitrary. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1766 |
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