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democrat|ˈdɛməʊkræt|
Also 8 -crate.
[a. F. démocrate (1790 in Hatzf.), formed from démocratie democracy, on the model of aristocrate.]
1. An adherent or advocate of democracy; orig. one of the republicans of the French Revolution of 1790 (opposed to aristocrat).
1790Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. 119/2 The democrates had already stripped the nobility of all power. 1791Gibbon Misc. Works (1814) I. 340 Even our democrats are more reasonable or more discreet. a1794― Autobiog. Wks. 1796 I. 181 The clamour of the triumphant democrates. 1840Carlyle Heroes vi. Napoleon, in his first period, was a true Democrat. 1851Helps Comp. Solit. ii. (1874) 15 Too affectionate a regard for the people to be a democrat.
2. U.S. politics. A member of the Democratic party: see democratic 2.
1798Washington Let. Writ. 1893 XIV. 105 You could as soon scrub the blackamore white as change the principle of a profest Democrat. 1809Kendall Trav. III. lx. 5 A democrat is an anti-federalist. 1847H. Clay Priv. Corr. 544 He must say whether he is Whig or Democrat. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. II. iii. liii. 333 One of these two parties carried on, under the name of Democrats, the dogmas and traditions of the Jeffersonian Republicans.
3. U.S. A light four-wheeled cart with several seats one behind the other, and usually drawn by two horses. ‘Originally called democratic wagon (Western and Middle U.S.)’. Cent. Dict.
1890S. J. Duncan Soc. Departure 26 The vehicle was, in the language of the country, a ‘democrat’, a high four-wheeled cart, painted and varnished, with double seats, one behind the other. 1894Auctioneer's Catal. (New York), Democrat Wagon in good order.
4. attrib. = democratic. rare.
1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. I. x. 186 He..talked of purpose in a democrat way in order to draw me out. 1890Spectator 15 Nov. 676 Whether a little farmer..is going to rule the Democrat Party in America. |