transitionistn.adj.
/tranˈzɪʃ(ə)nɪst/, /trɑːnˈzɪʃ(ə)nɪst/, /tranˈsɪʃ(ə)nɪst/, /trɑːnˈsɪʃ(ə)nɪst/, /trɑːnˈsɪʒ(ə)nɪst/, U.S. /trænˈzɪʃ(ə)nəst/ A. n.
A person who advocates or supports transition; spec. in the early 19th cent. (a derogatory name for) a member of the Tractarian movement (regarded as facilitating transition to the Roman Catholic Church).
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High Churchman1679
transitionist1823
Tractite1834
Oxfordist1836
Newmanite1837
Puseyite1838
tractarian1839
Puseyist1841
tractator1842
1823 Times 3 Mar. The change from war to peace was inadequate to produce the result contended for by the transitionists.
1850 ‘Anti-Vatican’ Puseyism Unmasked 20 The restoration in this Church of mediæval splendour and power is the dream of the Transitionists by night, and their song by day.
1913 Sc. Hist. Rev. 13 151 He..was rather a transitionist between the old and the new than an uncompromising Scholastic die-hard.
2015 Nation (Nigeria) (Nexis) 5 Jan. As the so-called ‘transitionists’ suggest, a transition committee would provide a template to change the country.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or characterized by transition or transitionists.
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Tractite1834
Newmanite1838
tractarian1841
Puseyitical1844
Newmanic1849
Puseyistical1849
transitionist1850
1850 Church & State Gaz. 12 July 436/3 Education will be..the field on which the battle is fought between Protestants and Transitionist Tractarians.
1861 E. G. K. Browne Ann. Tractarian Movement (ed. 3) 438 The advanced guard of the Transitionist party.
1922 J. W. Porter Evolution iv. 51 The horse, as we now have him, was imported from Europe, and the most ardent advocates of the transmutation, or transitionist theory, inform us that he is descended from the paleotherium.
2017 Frontiers of Health Services Managem. 34 40/2 Many staff have shifted to care coordination roles in pre- and post-acute care settings, such as a heart failure transitionist program in which a nurse educates patients and helps them navigate the continuum of care.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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