† Annistn.
Obsolete. rare.
In the 18th century: a supporter of Queen Anne.Apparently an isolated use.
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Annist1730
1730 J. Swift Vindic. Ld. C—— 37 I do not find how his E[xcellency] can be justly censured for favouring none but..Haters of True Protestants, Lawrell-men, Annists, Complainers of the Nation's Poverty, [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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n.1730- there is a remedy for everything but death
- there is a time and a place
- there is a time and a place for everything
- there is a time and place for everything
- there is a time to speak and a time to be silent
- there is etc no time to lose
- there is etc nothing doing
- there is life after
- there is matter in it
- there is money in
- there is more than one way to skin a cat
- there is no accounting for taste
- there is no accounting for tastes
- there is no call for
- there is no fear
- there is no fire without smoke
- there is no future in
- there is no getting away from
- there is no great miss of
- there is no green in one's eye
- there is no help for it
- there is no knowing
- there is no miss of
- there is no mistaking
- there is no nay