单词 | centralist |
释义 | centralistn.adj. A. n. A supporter or advocate of centralization, esp. in governmental or administrative organization. Also: (frequently with capital initial) a member of a political party or faction which espouses such views. Cf. centralism n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > centralized or regionalized systems > [noun] > centralism > one who promotes centralist1826 centralizer1834 society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > adherents of other principles of government aristocratical1651 imperialist1800 centralist1826 coercionist1841 Caesarean1869 feudalist1870 Caesarist1875 gynecocrat1893 patriarchalist1923 technocrat1932 presidentialist1935 plutodemocrat1939 psephocrat1966 1826 N.-Y. Spectator 28 July 1/4 One of the chiefs of the party of the centralists or anti-federalists [in Mexico]. 1836 D. B. Edward Hist. Texas 125 The second faction of this party, called the Centralists, wish to..form a central government. 1871 Daily News 21 Sept. The Emperor..would gladly..content both the Centralists and the Separatists. 1932 J. F. Rippy Hist. Evol. Hispanic Amer. ix. 176 There were centralists and unitarists who believed in subordinating the local units to the national government. 1971 Austral. Q. Sept. 122 As a centralist he was prepared to risk the hostility of the State Premiers. 1997 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 8 Dec. a6 The Centralists are know-alls who would like to see an omnipotent megacouncil as the fulcrum of all power and budget setting. 2001 Amer. Oxonian Winter 53 [A] coalition of northern separatists and southern centralists. B. adj. Of or relating to centralists or centralism; that favours or advocates centralization; characterized by or tending to centralism. Also: (frequently with capital initial) designating or relating to a political party or faction which espouses such views. Cf. centralism n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > centralized or regionalized systems > [adjective] > centralized or centralizing central1777 centralized1799 centralist1827 centralizing1832 unitarist1862 1827 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 12 Nov. Nearly all those detected in the conspiracy of Arenas were Spaniards, and attached to the Centralist or Monarchical party. 1893 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Soc. Sci. 3 16 The centralist views and efforts of Bolivar. 1918 R. W. Seton-Watson Rise Nationality in Balkans xi. 189 The Young Turkish revolution was essentially Turkish, nationalist and centralist in character. 1940 Slavonic & East European Rev. 19 124 The Centralist régime instituted by Schmerling had already broken down during the year preceding the war. 1975 Canad. Bar Rev. Sept. 585 One can speculate as to what the consequences of a more centralist interpretation of the British North America Act might have been. 2010 Guardian 10 Feb. 31/3 Centralist initiatives that always end in higher spending. Derivatives ˌcentraˈlistic adj. typical of a centralist or centralists; characterized by centralism. ΚΠ 1858 M. F. Tupper Rides & Reveries Late Mr. Æsop Smith 141 From the centralistic despotism of our Great Governing United Families, Heaven deliver poor old England! 1864 Realm 15 June 3 The strangely-centralistic speech of the Hungarian magnate. 1941 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 46 515 The fight of the peers against the centralistic tendencies of the kings in English and Hungarian history. 2012 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 7 Sept. Our country has changed..from an authoritarian and centralistic government to a government which respects the freedom of expression, of association and of assembly and of union. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1826 |
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