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▪ I. Jacksonian, a.1|dʒækˈsəʊnɪən|
[See -ian.]
Pertaining to or characteristic of Andrew Jackson (1767–1845), seventh president of the United States, a prominent leader of the Democratic party. Also as n., a follower of Jackson. Hence Jackˈsonianism.
1824Amer. Sentinel (Georgetown, Ky.) 18 Oct. 3/1 At Mount-sterling..they collected together six Jacksonians. 1824Commentator (Frankfort, Ky.) 23 Oct. 3/2 The old Jacksonian aristocratic leaven of the Adams faction. 1906W. Churchill Coniston v. 51 He..preached the word of Jacksonian Democracy in all the farmhouses round about. Ibid. 57 The conscientious Jacksonians who were misguided enough to believe in such a ticket. 1929Encycl. Brit. I. 156/2 Up to this point Adams's career had been almost uniformly successful, but his presidency (1825–29) was in most respects a failure, owing to the virulent opposition of the Jacksonians. Ibid. IV. 585/1 Calhoun,..during the remainder of the Jackson regime, was a severe critic of Jacksonianism. 1966Auden About House 16 A Proustian snob or a sound Jacksonian Democrat. 1973New Yorker 28 Apr. 146/2 Douglas's creed was Jacksonianism, which to him meant a United States expanding over the whole continent and demonstrating that a democracy could not only survive but prosper.
▪ II. Jacksonian, a.2 Med.|dʒækˈsəʊnɪən|
[f. the name of John Hughlings Jackson (1834–1911), English physician and neurologist: see -ian.]
Designating a form of epilepsy (and the associated convulsions, fits, etc.) in which the seizures are usually confined to one side of the body (in which case consciousness is retained) and begin at one site (usually a digit or the angle of the mouth), progressing from there to neighbouring parts.
1877Brit. & Foreign Med.-Chirurg. Rev. LIX. 51 The epithet ‘Jacksonian’ is even being introduced in France by Charcot to be applied to epilepsy or convulsions of a localised and partial character. 1878Glasgow Med. Jrnl. X. 92 Dr. Robertson showed a patient who suffers from Jacksonian Epilepsy. 1878Brit. Med. Jrnl. 28 Dec. 959/1 (heading) Jacksonian convulsions. 1890Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. XVII. 56 The Jacksonian spasm confined chiefly to the left hand and arm. 1933W. R. Brain Dis. Nervous Syst. iii. 224 Jacksonian attacks may occur at long intervals, or with great frequency, even up to several hundreds a day—serial Jacksonian epilepsy. 1960W. G. Lennox Epilepsy I. vii. 212 Most authorities, including Penfield.., use the term Jacksonian to cover all forms of local motor seizures. 1969H. H. Jasper et al. Basic Mechanisms Epilepsies xix. 517/1 Particular interest was centered in Jacksonian seizures. |