territorialistn.adj.

1845 B. Disraeli Sybil II. x. 137 The Territorialists must..understand that they cannot at the same time have the profits of a farm and the pleasures of a chase.

1876 Spectator in Banker's Mag. June 945 The English territorialist is as safe in his home as a king in his capital.

1910 T. H. S. Escott Edward Bulwer x. 225 The master of Knebworth must always rank with the chief Hertford territorialists.

1927 Times 8 Nov. 19/1 A few years after the Golden Age when nabobs had begun to spoil the market for the great territorialists.

1905 Daily Chron. 31 July 5/3 Territorialists..flooded the hall with leaflets declaring that 200 Russian Palestinians were illegally present.

1943 S. Rosenblatt People of Bk. i. v. 43 Another prewar schism was that brought about by the Territorialists headed by Israel Zangwill, who was in favor of accepting any territory that might be offered to Jews for settlement.

1975 Jrnl. Palestine Stud. 4 88 These could not, according to the Territorialists' formula, be accused of double loyalty since they did not have any relation with the state.

2003 M. Tyldesley No Heavenly Delusion? vii. 178 The Territorialists formulated plans for settlement in various places around the world, none of which came to anything.

1870 Westm. Rev. Jan. 53 The territorialist element in the present House is still very strong.

1924 Yale Law Jrnl. 33 869 The territorialist school [with regard to territorial waters] pictures some such natural necessity.

1955 J. S. Whale Protestant Trad. iv. xviii. 304 He [sc. Luther] had to take his territorialist Germany as he found it.

1984 Rev. Afr. Polit. Econ. 30 133 The Eritrean national movement is also viewed through these ‘territorialist’ spectacles.

2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 May v. 12/5 The lust for truffles has led to some territorialist shenanigans, like the poisoning of dogs and the slashing of tires.

1905 Menorah Oct. 204/2 If Russian Jewery were to solve its problem in Russia,..he did not see the necessity for the territorialist organization.

1947 Jewish Social Stud. 9 251 Israel Efroykin, a member of the Jarblum group and one with a record of Zionist and Territorialist activity.

1997 E. Melzer No Way Out 208 (note) A Territorialist Conference was held in London, where it was decided to unite the three Jewish territorialist organizations.

2008 C. S. Kessner Marie Syrkin i. 43 The ever-present fifteen or twenty comrades who continually arrived to debate the pros and cons of Territorialist theory and issues relating to the Jewish proletariat.