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revoˈlutionary, a. and n.
[f. revolution n. + -ary. Cf. F. révolutionnaire (1794), Sp. and Pg. revolucionario.]
A. adj.
1. a. Pertaining to or connected with, characterized by, of the nature of, revolution. Also Comb.
1774Gouv. Morris in Sparks Life & Writ. (1832) I. 27, I think government should be founded on stationary and not revolutionary principles. 1796Burke Regic. Peace Wks. IX. 95 Every thing we hear from them is new, and, to use a phrase of their own, revolutionary. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. xv. (1876) III. 111 A new and revolutionary government is seldom fairly dealt with. 1838Story Equity Pleadings x. 305 Which stock had been confiscated by the State during the Revolutionary war. 1874Green Short Hist. vii. §3. 362 The Calvinistic refugees were pouring back from Geneva with dreams of revolutionary change in Church and State. 1919G. B. Shaw Heartbreak House p. ix, Heartbreak House was quite familiar with revolutionary ideas on paper. 1930[see orgiastical a.]. 1937‘C. Caudwell’ v. 94 Illusion & Reality Revolutionary-puritan ideals of liberty. 1941Koestler Scum 19 They had an explanation ready for every occasion... They called it ‘revolutionary dialectics’. 1959Encounter XIII. 78 Even after the revolutionary-existentialist mood in Poland faded. 1960[see luftmensch, luftmensh]. 1970W. Klatt in D. J. Dwyer China Now (1974) xviii. 345 In 1967 and 1968 Chinese Press and radio reports revealed population data of a more serious type. These emanated from the Revolutionary Committees in China's chief administrative regions. 1975C. P. Mackerras Chinese Theatre in Mod. Times x. 177 The well known Szechwanese Opera actress Ch'en Shu-fang..performed in a modern revolutionary opera in May 1971. 1977Undercurrents June–July 10/1 Capitalism has developed (even if the revolutionary left's response to it has not).
2. Revolving; marked by rotation.
1832Brewster Nat. Magic ii. 27 Cattle grazing in a field might make part of the revolutionary landscape. 1880E. J. Reed Japan II. 116 The Russian frigate..was spun round..and was thrown high and dry, a useless wreck, at the end of the revolutionary period.
B. n. One who instigates or favours revolution; one who takes part in a revolution.
1850Kingsley Alt. Locke Pref. (1879) p. xcviii, It is well..for every student of history to know what manner of men they are who become revolutionaries. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 293 That this degree of enthusiasm has been..reached by sane revolutionaries, history demonstrates.
Hence revoˈlutionarily adv.
1864R. Cobden Let. 3 May in J. Morley Life R. Cobden (1881) II. xviii. 448 It was feared..that if he went to the provinces he might be talking too revolutionarily. 1927Daily Express 11 Feb. 1/1 Lisbon is traversed from north to south by wide avenues—splendid places for those who are revolutionarily inclined. 1956W. S. Churchill Hist. Eng.-Speaking Peoples I. ii. vi. 181 He [sc. Richard I] made new and revolutionarily heavy demands for taxation. 1971Frendz 21 May 8/2 Revolutionarily aware people can't be fooled by these kinds of people. |