† kingistn.
Obsolete.
A supporter or partisan of a king (in various senses).
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1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 59 Thai wald mok ws on lyke manere, and call ws Kingistis and Queneistis.
1867 Salt Lake Daily Tel. (Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory) 17 Jan. Who wouldn't be a Kingist or a Queenist?
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone III. x. 162 Knowing Lorna to be a ‘papist’ as we choose to call them—though they might as well call us ‘kingists’, after the head of our church.
1903 J. K. Hayward Rebuttal of Spiritism 16 Even Hobbes, the most consistent materialist of all, was a Godist in religion, and a kingist in politics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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