单词 | revolutionary |
释义 | revolutionaryadj.n. A. adj. 1. Relating to, characterized by, or of the nature of political revolution; involving or constituting radical change. Also (frequently with capital initial): relating to a particular revolution. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [adjective] revolutionary1694 sansculottish1798 sansculottic1822 red1848 Bolshevizing1920 1694 Reply to Answer Dr. Welwood 43 We need not be afraid of a Revolutionary Parliament under a Popish King. 1719 A. Ramkins Mem. 181 No Roman Catholick was oblig'd to oppose the Revolutionary Measures in Conscience much less in Policy. a1797 E. Burke Fourth Let. Peace Regicide Directory France in Writings & Speeches (1991) IX. 101 Every thing we hear from them is new, and, to use a phrase of their own, revolutionary. 1838 J. Story Comm. Equity Pleadings x. 305 Which stock had been confiscated by the State during the Revolutionary war. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §3. 362 The Calvinistic refugees were pouring back from Geneva with dreams of revolutionary change in Church and State. 1919 G. B. Shaw Heartbreak House Pref. in Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, & Playlets of War p. ix Heartbreak House was quite familiar with revolutionary ideas on paper. 1951 H. Arendt Burden of our Time i. ii. 38 Their revolutionary impulse was directed against the government. 1970 W. Klatt in D. J. Dwyer China Now (1974) xviii. 345 Press and radio reports..emanated from the Revolutionary Committees. 2009 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Jan. 28/2 A gap that led to Darwin's most revolutionary idea. 2. That revolves; relating to or characterized by rotation. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] rotatory1578 dinetical1646 vertiginous1663 dinetic1668 rotary1704 rotal1724 revolutionary1734 circumrotatory1744 rotative1747 rotatorial1755 verticillary1758 circumvolutionary1809 evolutionary1828 rotational1870 circumductory1872 1734 tr. P. L. M. de Maupertuis Diss. Cœlestial Bodies 64 in J. Keill Exam. Burnet's Theory of Earth (ed. 2) The parts of the Torrent will have..a Centrifugal Force which they will acquire from their revolutionary Motion. 1799 Commerc. Advertiser (N.Y.) 16 Feb. Suppl. A graphical representation of the Earth, in twelve particular positions during its revolutionary course round the sun. 1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic ii. 27 Cattle grazing in a field [sc. on a revolving card] might make part of the revolutionary landscape. 1880 E. J. Reed Japan II. 116 The Russian frigate..was spun round..and was thrown high and dry, a useless wreck, at the end of the revolutionary period. 1953 E. G. Barter Relativity & Reality xv. 123 Used in the calculation of the revolutionary and rotatory movements in the solar system. 1971 Sci. News 100 420/1 The changes in ultraviolet brightness as beta Lyrae goes through its revolutionary cycle. 1993 D. E. Cosgrove Palladian Landscape ix. 228 The figure of the circle and the concept of continuous revolutionary motion are fundamental to the idea of the great machine of the world. B. n. A person who instigates or supports revolution; a participant in a particular revolution. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [noun] > revolutionary innovator1598 revolver1698 revolutionist1710 sansculotte1790 revolutionary1795 revolutionizer1798 revolutioner1803 descamisado1821 radical1822 sansculottist1833 revolutionaire1835 red republican1848 redshirt1889 Bolshevik1926 Young Turk1948 1795 tr. J.-B. Louvet de Couvray Narr. of Dangers 127 Such was the glorious expedition of Bed-d'Ambez, where the revolutionaries signalized equally their courage and their address. 1802 tr. J. L. Soulavie Hist. & Polit. Mem. V. 237 Some Genevese..introduced themselves into the chamber of the third estate..to take the revolutionaries of 1782 in the very act. 1862 C. Kingsley Alton Locke (rev. ed.) Pref. p. xiv It is well..to know what manner of men they are who become revolutionaries. 1923 Times 2 Mar. 9/2 I also am a revolutionary, though only a scientific one. 1986 M. Foot Loyalists & Loners 128 The old contest between middle-class revolutionaries and solid, tame trades unionists. 2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 Aug. b29/3 Fidel Castro..surrounded by rifle-toting revolutionaries. Compounds Revolutionary War n. (also with lower-case intials) U.S. History the War of Independence (1775–83) fought by the American colonies against British rule; cf. American Revolution n. at American n. and adj. Compounds 3a and revolution n. 9c. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > other specific war Punic War1556 Vandal war1613 American Civil War1775 Seven Years War1775 Revolutionary Wara1784 Peninsular war1811 Great War1815 Mormon war1833 opium war1841 the Thirty Years' War1841 the Thirty Years' War1842 Mexican War1846 Napoleonic War1850 Crimean War1854 Hundred Years War1874 Balkan war1881 Boer War1883 Winter War1939 Six Day War1967 Yom Kippur War1973 Gulf War1981 Falklands conflict1982 a1784 P. Van Cortlandt Rep. in J. Judd Corr. Van Cortlandt Family (1977) II. 483 Losses during the Revolutionary War. 1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom lxvi. 237 The leaves of Ceanothus americanus were used during the revolutionary war as a substitute for tea, and hence it is called New Jersey Tea. 1938 Amer. Home Jan. 26/1 It was a compensation to Connecticut residents for property that had been burned by the British during the Revolutionary War. 2008 E. G. Burrows Forgotten Patriots viii. 203 The Revolutionary War was in many respects a civil war, during which an estimated 50,000 Tories took up arms to maintain British rule. Derivatives revoˈlutionarily adv. [compare French révolutionnairement (1793)] ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > sudden or complete change > [adverb] revolutionarily1795 catastrophically1872 society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [adverb] revolutionarily1795 revolutionally1839 1795 Times 4 Mar. Brothers's mind being revolutionarily exalted. 1864 R. Cobden Let. 3 May in J. Morley Life R. Cobden (1881) II. xviii. 448 It was feared..that if he went to the provinces he might be talking too revolutionarily. 1927 Daily Express 11 Feb. 1/1 Lisbon is traversed from north to south by wide avenues—splendid places for those who are revolutionarily inclined. 2009 Washington Note (Nexis) 12 Jan. Rumsfeld launched a campaign to revamp.., quite revolutionarily, the American way of offense. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1694 |
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