单词 | royalist |
释义 | royalistn.adj. A. n. 1. a. A supporter or adherent of a monarch or a monarch's rights, esp. in times of civil war, rebellion, or secession; a supporter of the principle of monarchy, a monarchist. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > monarchism > adherent of king's maneOE regalist?1591 kingling1603 royalist1605 monarchist1640 regiana1652 basilean1655 1605 E. Sandys Relation State of Relig. sig. R3v The Royalists..dislike the attempts of the Protestants in alteration of religion. 1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. i. 295 He [i.e. the devil] will be..a zealous Royalist for Cæsar. 1737 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 166/1 Notwithstanding what may be urg'd in his Favour as a Royalist. 1799 Monthly Mag. Apr. 220/2 The renowned commander of the royalists was in the very morass that he had just left. 1812 Ann. Reg., Hist. 209 He appears to have made no effectual resistance to the progress of the royalists. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands I. v. 154 Of the royalists a single man was killed. 1920 Times 30 Oct. 9/3 He depicted the Reichswehr as mainly a Royalist institution. 2010 Townsville (Queensland) Bull. (Nexis) 18 Jan. 7 The young prince dashed into Auckland for a whirlwind two-day visit on Sunday to be met at the airport by just 10 enthusiastic royalists. b. Frequently with capital initial. A supporter of the King against Parliament in the English Civil War; a Cavalier. Contrasted with Parliamentarian. Now historical. ΚΠ 1642 H. Parker Observ. His Majesties Answers 38 Is there a machination in hand..which neither Kingdom, Parliament, King, nor all the Royallists can oppose? 1660 Scutum Regale: Royal Buckler 243 The books of the Royalists..he calleth anti-Parliamentary Pamphlets. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 729 He fled to Oxon, the common Asylum of afflicted royalists. 1742 J. Anderson Geneal. Hist. House of Yvery I. i. ii. 23 He left Oxford privately, and quitted the Party of the Royalists, to which he till then had rigidly adhered. 1780 Tunbridge Wells Guide 22 The royalists lodged at this place [sc. Southborough], and the roundheads at Rusthall. 1820 J. Trumbull Poet. Wks. II. 225 The royalists called them [sc. puritans] Whigs, prick-ears and round-heads. 1890 R. F. D. Palgrave O. Cromwell xiii. 288 The Royalists had only to wait, ready to cut in when the Levellers had done the work. 1923 Eng. Hist. Rev. 38 502 Orlando Bridgeman was a royalist, and Rigby a parliamentarian. 2001 C. Durston Cromwell's Major-generals vii. 133 By the spring of 1656 the vast majority of royalists in England were bound to the government in very large sums for their good behaviour. c. A supporter of the British cause during the American revolutionary period. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > support of British side in War of Independence > supporter Tory1769 royalist1777 refugee1780 king's man1787 1777 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 572/1 The cries of the dying and wounded, on either side of the Americans or the Royalists, reach not our ears. 1785 R. Hunter Jrnl. in Quebec to Carolina (1943) 65 The Royalists have settlements along Lake St. Francis and up to Cataraqui. a1804 W. Gilpin Mem. Josias Rogers (1808) 49 Several of the royalists of New York..had fitted out privateers against the Americans. 1848 J. K. Paulding Life Washington ix. 108 Washington passed his army over into New-Jersey, leaving the royalists entire masters in New-York. 1889 Andover Rev. May 477 Even in Boston there were a thousand royalists who were glad to go out with British troops at the evacuation. 1908 N. Carolina Booklet Jan. 201 In Watauga the royalists seem to have been more extensively members of the disorderly and undesirable class of citizens. 1972 J. Mosher Some would call it Adultery iv. xxi. 176 ‘Oh, a Royalist, eh?’ said the admiral, using the Yankee term for United Empire Loyalist, as they were known in Canada. 2003 S. Weintraub Gen. Washington's Christmas Farewell i. 4 New York and Long Island, the last major enclaves of enemy troops in the former colonies and home to resident and refugee royalists from Maine. ΚΠ 1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 20/1 Such a squeeze of frames, as we invariably find in the Architectural Room of the Royalists. B. adj. Of, relating to, or designating royalists or royalism. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [adjective] > supporting monarchy royal1600 Regious1651 royalist1680 white?1740 royalistical1801 royalistic1840 monarchistic1890 1680 R. Baxter Church-hist. Govt. Bishops xii. 369 The first was the Royalist Heresie of Loyalty, called the Henricians, from Henry the Emperor, who thought that the Pope and Prelates had not authority to depose Kings and Emperors, but were to be Subjects to them. 1745 N. Hooke Rom. Hist. II. xxv. 193 The heads of the conspiracy..had come to an accomodation with Andranodorus, the late King's uncle-in-law, and chief of the royalist party. 1794 Edinb. Mag. Jan. 65/1 The Royalist Infantry..attacked the Republicans in four or five different points on the banks of the river. 1838 J. S. Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) I. 289 This conflict between a Royalist education, and the spirit of the modern world. 1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years I. 293 Observing a royalist post, he advanced towards it alone. 1871 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 233/1 France is royalist, they say. If France is royalist, why not let France say so herself? 1920 J. Ward With ‘Die-hards’ in Siberia xiv. 160 The Russian officers are Royalist almost to a man. 1958 D. S. Daniell Hunt Royal (1962) i. 13 Puffs of smoke appeared as the Royalist infantry opened fire with their muskets from behind the hedge-rows. 2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 10 Apr. 16 Leading politicians in the mainstream parties are believed to harbour royalist sympathies and the army is loyal. Derivatives royaˈlistic adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [adjective] > supporting monarchy royal1600 Regious1651 royalist1680 white?1740 royalistical1801 royalistic1840 monarchistic1890 1840 Dearden's Misc. Dec. 877 It had assumed under the former proprietors, a somewhat royalistic colour. 1891 T. K. Cheyne Origin & Relig. Contents Psalter vii. ii. 339 The royalistic form of the Messianic Conception. 1996 J. Lane Constit. & Polit. Theory iv. 77 The 1951 Jordanian constitution is somewhat less royalistic, as the cabinet is responsible to Parliament. royaˈlistical adj. now rare ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [adjective] > supporting monarchy royal1600 Regious1651 royalist1680 white?1740 royalistical1801 royalistic1840 monarchistic1890 1801 B. Hichborn Let. 1 Feb. in T. Jefferson Papers (2005) XXXII. 534 He holds his place, under the supposed auspices of an aristocratical & royalistical party. 1890 R. F. D. Palgrave O. Cromwell 283 Peter Talbot, the Jesuit, who introduced Sexby to the King, was a rascal, and a royalistical Leveller. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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