parliamentarian
see also: Parliamentarian
Noun
Parliamentarian
Noun
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see also: Parliamentarian
Noun
parliamentarian (plural parliamentarians)
- A member of a parliament, congress or an elected national legislative body of another name.
- Synonyms: congressman, MP, deputy
- A person well-versed in parliamentary procedure.
- An officer in most legislative bodies charged with being well-versed in the parliamentary rules of that legislative house, and whose rulings are taken as authoritative, to be appealed only to the whole of the house itself under special rules.
- French: parlementaire
- German: Parlamentarier
- Italian: parlamentare
- Portuguese: parlamentar
- Russian: парламента́рий
- Spanish: parlamentario, parlamentaria
parliamentarian
- Of or relating to a parliament; favouring the establishment of a parliament.
- Synonyms: parliamentary
- a parliamentarian democracy; the parliamentarian movement
- 1946, Office of United States Chief Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality, Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Washington, Volume 1, citing Wilhelm Frick,
- Our participation in the parliament does not indicate a support, but rather an undermining of the parliamentarian system.
- (historical) Of or relating to the Parliamentarians (supporters of the parliament during the English Civil War (1642–1651)).
- 1685, George Bate, Elenchus Motuum Nuperorum in Anglia, or, A Short Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Late Troubles in England, London, p. 41,
- [...] Deputies were sent with Commissions into all the Counties; and the Parliamentarian Rebels by force and their own authority, invade the Militia, which they could not obtain from the King by petitioning.
- 1692, Anthony Wood (antiquary), Athenæ Oxonienses, London: Thomas Bennet, Volume 2, p. 291,
- But while he continued there, he shew’d himself a Dunce, a Tale-bearer to the Parliamentarian Visitors that then acted in the University, and a factious person.
- 1771, [Oliver] Goldsmith, “Charles I. (Continued.)”, in The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of George II. [...] In Four Volumes, volume III, London: Printed for T[homas] Davies, […]; [T.] Becket and [P. A.] De Hondt; and T[homas] Cadell, […], OCLC 228756232 ↗, page 271 ↗:
- The Scotch and parliamentarian army had joined, and were beſieging York; when prince Rupert, joined by the marquis of Newcaſtle, determined to raiſe the ſiege.
- 1895, Hereford Brooke George, Battles of English History, London: Methuen, Chapter 9, p. 128,
- There were large regions which were very decidedly royalist, others almost as distinctly parliamentarian [...]
- 1685, George Bate, Elenchus Motuum Nuperorum in Anglia, or, A Short Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Late Troubles in England, London, p. 41,
Parliamentarian
Noun
parliamentarian (plural parliamentarians)
- A supporter of parliament during the English Civil War.
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