| 释义 |
constiˈtutionist rare.
[f. constitution + -ist.]
An adherent of the constitution of the country; = constitutionalist 2.
1735–8Bolingbroke On Parties xix. (T.), Nothing can be more reasonable than to admit the nominal division of Constitutionists, and Anti-Constitutionists. Ibid. (R.), To encourage the constitutionists or country-party. 1746W. Horsley Fool (1748) II. 15 There is, in the above Speech, a..Turn of Thinking, that denotes the Speaker a thorough Constitutionist. |