单词 | actionist |
释义 | actionistn.ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > holder of stocks or shares sharer1667 actionist1720 actionary1728 stockholder1753 shareholder1755 actioner1825 holder1848 sokaiya1971 1720 Hist. Reg. No. 20. 340 He has thought proper to avoid alarming the fair Actionists, who have not parted with their Stock. 1792 J. Townsend Journey through Spain (ed. 3) II. 4 In this last year, the actionists divided only seven per cent. 1825 H. Wheaton Rep. Supreme Court U.S. 10 144 He is what is called an actionist, or share holder, in the voyage. 2. A person who believes in or advocates action; a person who takes action. ΚΠ 1812 Religionism 32 Actionists... Some taught by thee, Demosthenes, are bent, On action, action, action, ne'er content With emphasis of utterance (fault absurd!) Unless pronounced, and acted too, each word. 1851 Harper's Mag. Sept. 557/2 The spirit manifested by the ‘actionists’ toward the ‘co-operationists’. 1926 W. Lewis Art of being Ruled xii. iv. 395 Words are the arch enemies of any behaviorist, comparative psychologist, physiologist, vitalist, or actionist of any sort. 1966 P. Rosenfels Love & Power i. 41 Wives who are actionists in domestic life and casual social activities, but who are in no sense masculine in their inner identity. 2006 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 Apr. d1 ‘We're actionists, not activists,’ he told 35 volunteers one Saturday morning in Ocotillo. 3. Art. Also with capital initial. An artist of the actionism movement; spec. (in later use) = Viennese Actionist n. at Viennese adj. and n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1953 Yuma (Arizona) Daily Sun 29 Oct. ii. 3/2 The ‘actionists’ are interested in the physical process of painting only. 1962 F. Eversole Christian Faith & Contemp. Arts 197 The actionists have gone on from Kandinsky and Klee and have tried to create ex nihilo. 1993 TDR 37 165 The shocked audience in the lecture theatre could observe the Actionists defecating from a table,..vomiting, masturbating,..[etc.]. 2008 A. Grossman in G. Morris Action! xii. 176 Sometimes the actionists would be jailed on public obscenity charges. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1720 |
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