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terriˈtorialist
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
1. A member or representative of the class of land-owners: cf. territorial 1 c.
1865Pall Mall G. 22 July 10/2 [The candidate] has no land in the county, and very little influence over the territorialists. 1867B. Cracroft in Brodrick Ess. Reform 164 If we add 246 to 256 we get 502 as the ascertained number of the territorialists in the House of Commons. 1901Daily Record & Mail 21 Dec. 4 A compulsory disposal of the land from territorialists to settlers.
2. A member of a Jewish organization, whose aim was to secure a separate territory for the Jews: cf. quot. 1906 s.v. territorial 1. Hist.
1905Daily Chron. 31 July 5/3 The territorialists..were bent on forcing [the Zionist] congress to accept the Gnas Ngishu plateau as a counsel of despair. 1909Ibid. 9 Sept. 3/4 The..‘Territorialists’..maintain that the true aim of the Jews ought to be to obtain an autonomous settlement anywhere—Uganda, for instance, or even Argentina. |