单词 | metapolitician |
释义 | metapoliticiann. Now rare. A student of or expert in metapolitics; spec. (depreciative) an impractical political theorizer. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > [noun] > political theory > one involved in political theorist1752 metapolitician1818 1818 S. T. Coleridge Friend I. iii. iii. 309 The philosophy of Rousseau and his followers [might] not inaptly be entitled, Metapolitics, and the Doctors of this School, Metapoliticians. 1832 R. Southey Ess. I. 390 The meta-politicians, as they have aptly been called, who bewilder themselves with abstractions. 1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein I. 30 Lest..the management of affairs should..pass into the hands of those whom he calls, with strong contempt, metapoliticians. 1883 F. W. Maitland in Mind 8 524 The metapoliticians, the people who would solve ethical and political problems by juristic methods. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1818 |
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