revolutionaladj.
/ˌrɛvəˈl(j)uːʃn̩(ə)l/, /ˌrɛvəˈl(j)uːʃən(ə)l/, U.S. /ˌrɛvəˈluʃ(ə)nəl/ Now rare.† 2. Relating to, favouring or supporting the Glorious Revolution (see revolution n. 9a). Obsolete.
1. Astronomy and Astrology. Of or relating to the revolution of a planet or other celestial object. Now rare.
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the world > the universe > heavenly body > movement of heavenly bodies > [adjective] > movement in orbit
periodical1603
periodic1650
revolutional1652
orbitual1806
orbital1846
orbituary1864
orbiting1951
1652 J. Childrey Indago Astrologica 11 All figures, whether Horary, Revolutional, or Genethliaque.
1693 W. Freke Sel. Ess. iv. 29 One tells you your Fortune by a Horary Question; another by a Revolutional Figure.
1734 Present State Republick Lett. 14 225 The greater Probability of the Motion of these Stars being Revolutional than Vertiginous.
1830 T. Oxley Celestial Planispheres 291 Astrologers form a general idea of judgment of the events of any particular year, by the revolutional figure for that year.
1892 R. S. Ball Time & Tide (ed. 2) 175 The total moment of momentum of the planets by rotation..added to the revolutional moment of momentum, will remain absolutely constant.
1912 G. H. Lepper From Nebula to Nebula ii. 29 Planetary revolutional (as distinguished from rotational) motions of our solar system.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [adjective] > relating to specific revolution > in England in 1688
revolutional1695
1695 C. Leslie Remarks Some Late Serm. 27 He hath made good..every Word of his Revolutional Declaration.
1733 (title) The loyal: or revolutional Tory.
1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 438 Dr. Sherlock, then Master of the Temple, preached a most loyal revolutional sermon.
1787 Ann. Reg. 1784–5 Chron. 278/1 I was called forth as your representative, in support of revolutional principles.
1824 J. Morse Ann. Amer. Revol. 93 No subjects in the kingdom were more strongly attached to the royal house of Hanover, and to those revolutional principles which placed it on the throne of the British empire, than the colonists.
3. Revolutionary.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > sudden or complete change > [adjective]
revolutional1796
revolutionizing1797
catastrophic1837
cataclysmic1851
cataclysmal1861
catastrophical1876
upheaving1881
1796 J. Owen Trav. Europe I. 10 The issue of these revolutional tumults had cast a gloom over the place.
1803 J. Forbes Let. 5 Aug. in Lett. from France (1806) I. 397 During the revolutional phrenzy every thing sacred was held in detestation.
1899 A. M. Fairbairn Catholicism vii. 285 Changes that were as to the English State constitutional, but as to the English Church revolutional.
1986 G. B. Madison Logic of Liberty 256 Throughout its history liberalism has been bound up with radical, revolutional thinking.
Derivatives
revoˈlutionally adv.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [adverb]
revolutionarily1795
revolutionally1839
1839 Fraser's Mag. 19 127 He lived..with kings, monarchically; with the people, democratically;..with the revolution, revolutionally.
1873 S. S. Hennell Present Relig. II. i. iv. 281 Evolved, revolutionally, on a plan that is persistent, from the mass of precedent metaphysical intellection.
1912 G. H. Lepper From Nebula to Nebula v. 87 The planet is not, however, thereby retarded, whether rotationally or revolutionally, but is made to press onward.
1947 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 250 169/1 The atomic world is something revolutionally different from anything we have experienced before.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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