单词 | septembrist |
释义 | Septembristn. Now historical. 1. A participant in or advocate of the massacre of political prisoners that took place in Paris on 2–6 September 1792. Cf. September massacres n. at September n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [noun] > revolutionary > bloodthirsty Septembrist1793 Septembrizer1794 Septemberer1837 1793 H. M. Williams Lett. France IV. iv. 151 We start back with horror at the savage Septembrists, and imprecate curses on their heads. 1844 Fraser's Mag. 30 320 Ho! St. Antoine, arouse thee now—ho! brave Septembrists all. 1930 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 15 June i. 20/1 The last few murders in Chicago have been decorated with the trappings of a terror that would have done credit to the Septembrists of Paris. 1968 C. B. Boyer Hist. Math. xxii. 516 Condorcet..then boldly denounced the Septembrists, and was ordered arrested for his pains. 2004 J. Elster Closing Books viii. 243 In an analogy to the French ‘septembrists’, these were referred to as ‘marchians’. 2. A participant in or supporter of the successful Portuguese insurrection of September 1836, in favour of the restoration of the constitution of 1822. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > politics of other European countries > [noun] > principle of Portuguese politics > supporters of Septembrist1838 Septembrizer1840 Sebastianist1881 1838 Times 24 July 6/2 Those who are not Septembrists may perhaps have very different feelings towards that distinguished diplomatist. 1840 New Monthly Mag. 59 439 Many individuals of importance..have joined the now dominant party, of the Septembrists [in Portugal]. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 553 at Portugal It was now [sc. 1845] the turn of the radicals or Septembrists to have recourse to arms. 1951 C. K. Webster Foreign Policy Palmerston (1969) I. vi. 485 The ‘Constitutionalists’ or ‘Septembrists’, the new extreme party, were, for a time at any rate, pro-French. 2000 J. M. Anderson Hist. Portugal vii. 135 Four years of inept Septembrist government led to a rejection of the 1838 constitution and to the restoration of the charter in 1842. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1793 |
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