† explosionistn.
Obsolete.
A person who uses explosives; esp. a person who plants bombs; a terrorist.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > one who lays or operates mines or bombs > [noun]
mine master1598
petarder1611
petardier1632
miner1692
springer1860
explosionist1868
dynamitard1882
dynamitist1882
dynamiter1883
dynamiteur1883
bomb-thrower1891
bomber1915
car bomber1919
letter bomber1947
firebomber1957
plastiqueur1961
society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > terrorism > [noun] > terrorist > using explosives
explosionist1868
dynamitard1882
dynamitist1882
dynamiter1883
dynamiteur1883
firebomber1957
plastiqueur1961
petrol bomber1971
1868 Daily News & Herald (Savannah, Georgia) 27 May 2/3 Michael Barrett alias Jackson, the Clerkenwell explosionist, has been executed.
1883 Birmingham Weekly Post 14 Apr. 4/6 The explosionists are quite as well acquainted with the imbecility of our laws as with the potency of dynamite.
1899 Amer. Machinist 31 Aug. 29/3 The inspector, an ardent low-water explosionist, but not an engineer.
1900 W. Tinsley Random Recoll. II. xvi. 326 I heard some years after many of my young Irish friends had found fresh fields and pastures new, that my office was a suspected haunt for Fenians and explosionists for a time.
1910 West Coast Times (N.Z.) 5 May 4/4 Missing Explosionist... There is still no trace of Laurent, who endeavoured to blow up the Upokongaro Hotel.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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