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‖ Carbonari, n. pl.|karboˈnari|
Rarely in sing. carbonaro.
[It.; pl. of carbonaro collier, charcoal-burner, an appellation assumed by the society.]
The members of a secret political association formed in the kingdom of Naples during the French occupation under Murat, with the design of introducing a republican government.
1823Byron Age of Bronze xii, Have Carbonaro cooks not carbonadoed Each course enough? 1840Marryat Olla Podr. (Rtldg.) 245 The Carbonari had become formidable in Italy. 1870Disraeli Lothair viii. 33 How they can be got together, I marvel: priests and philosophers, legitimists and carbonari! 1880W. Cory Mod. Eng. Hist. I. 148 note, In 1799..when driven to the forest of the Abruzzi they [republicans] are believed to have disguised themselves as charcoal-burners. In the course of twenty years the name Carbonari was borne by a society, or confederate societies, ranging all over Italy.
Hence carboˈnarism, the political principles of the Carbonari, or (transf.) of similar revolutionists.
1832Athenæum No. 243. 399 A touch of carbonari-ism. 1857Sat. Rev. III. 51/1. 1878 Seeley Stein III. 487 His subjects..were almost all imbued with the principles of liberty, and indeed with some ideas of carbonarism. |