spec. English History. A participant in the prosecution, trial, and execution of Charles I in 1649 following his defeat in the Civil War.

A supporter or approver of the Glorious Revolution, or of the principles which inspired it.

In the French Revolution, a republican of the poorer classes in Paris. Hence gen. an extreme republican or revolutionary.

Also with capital initial. In France: (a) a member of a voluntary armed association drawn from the provinces for the 3rd Fête of the Federation in…

spec. French History. A participant in the prosecution, trial, and execution of Louis XVI in 1793 during the French Revolution.

As a political term. French History. Chiefly with capital initial. In the French Revolution, an adherent or supporter of the Jacobins, who advocated…

French History. One of those who took part in the overthrow of Robespierre on the 9th Thermidor (27 July) 1794.

A woman who knits; applied spec. to women who, during the French Revolution, sat and knitted at meetings of the Convention or at guillotinings. Also…

spec. A member of any of those bands of adventurers who between 1850 and 1860 organized expeditions from the United States, in violation of…

Usually in form Nihilist. A supporter of a revolutionary movement in 19th-cent. and early 20th-cent. Russia, which rejected all systems of…

A member of a Kurdish nationalist revolutionary army established in the early 1960s. Also more generally: a Kurdish partisan or guerrilla.