单词 | demagogue |
释义 | demagoguen. 1. In ancient times, a leader of the people; a popular leader or orator who espoused the cause of the people against any other party in the state. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > leader > of the people tribune1587 demagogue1651 jefe1844 Pasionaria1961 zaim1975 1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. x. §6. 153 In a Democraty, look how many Demagoges (that is) how many powerfull Oratours there are with the people. 1683 J. Dryden Life Plutarch 99 in J. Dryden et al. tr. Plutarch Lives I Their Warriours, and Senators, and Demagogues. 1719 J. Swift Let. to Young Gentleman Demosthenes and Cicero, though each of them a leader (or as the Greeks called it, a demagogue) in a popular state, yet seem to differ. 1832 J.-C.-L. S. de Sismondi Hist. Ital. Republics x. 224 He was descended from one of the demagogues who, in 1378, had undertaken the defence of the minor arts against the aristocracy. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §6. 520 He [Pym] proved himself..the grandest of demagogues. 2. In bad sense: A leader of a popular faction, or of the mob; a political agitator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of the mob in order to obtain power or further his own interests; an unprincipled or factious popular orator. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > sedition > [noun] > seditious person > rabble-rouser or demagogue demagogue1649 mob-drivera1734 mob-orator1814 rabble-rouser1831 hatemonger1916 1649 Εἰκων Βασιλικη iv Who were the chief demagogues and patrons of tumults, to send for them, to flatter and embolden them. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης iv. 36 Setting aside the affrightment of this Goblin word; for the King by his leave cannot coine English as he could Mony, to be current..those Demagogues..saving his Greek, were good Patriots. 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 455 A plausible, insignificant Word, in the mouth of an expert Demagogue, is a dangerous and a dreadfull Weapon. 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. i. viii. 117 I do not play the part of a mere demagogue. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 243 He despised the mean arts and unreasonable clamours of demagogues. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. ΚΠ 1812 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 8 349 The venom and virulence of the demagogue journalists. 1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. (1883) III. 61 He stooped to no demagogue art. 1887 Brit. Mercantile Gaz. 15 June 29/1 The overheated demagogue-fired imagination of the masses. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). demagoguev. Chiefly U.S. 1. intransitive. To play the demagogue. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > sedition > act seditiously [verb (intransitive)] > rabble-rouse demagogue1656 rabble-rouse1864 demagoguize1889 1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 143 When that same ranting fellow Alcibiades fell on Demagoging for the Sicilian War. 1850 Congress. Globe 24 July App. 940 In Ohio, the master-spirits of the party, while demagoging upon the stump, have promised the people [etc.]. 1867 Congress. Globe 16 Mar. 146/1 There was a great temptation presented to members of the Republican party now to demagogue. 1876 Congress. Rec. 1 July 4338/1 I have not been one of those..trying to cut down a few dollars for the purpose of demagoguing before the county. 2. transitive. To deal with (a matter) after the fashion of a demagogue. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > deliver (a speech) [verb (transitive)] > for specific occasion, purpose, or cause stump1856 demagogue1890 spruik1901 keynote1908 1890 Cincinnati Commercial Gaz. 31 July The President never thought of demagoging the matter by..spurning the goodly gift. 1897 Congress. Rec. 20 Feb. 2041/2 Here is a plain, common-sense question, not to be demogogued in any way. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1649v.1656 |
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