Word Meanings - REVOLUTIONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution. Burke.

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• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• CHANGEABLY
  In a changeable manner.
• EFFECT
  1. To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. So great a body such exploits to effect. Daniel. 2. To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish. To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed. Bp. Hurd. They sailed
• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• ENGAGING
  Tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address. -- En*ga"ging*ly, adv. -- En*ga"ging*ness, n. Engaging and disengaging gear or machinery, that in which, or by means of which, one part is alternately brought
• CHANGE
  1. To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance. Therefore will I change their glory into shame. Hosea. iv. 7. 2. To alter by
• REVOLUTION
  The motion of any body, as a planet or satellite, in a curved line or orbit, until it returns to the same point again, or to a point relatively the same; -- designated as the annual, anomalistic, nodical, sidereal, or tropical revolution, according
• REVOLUTIONIZE
  To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government. Ames. The gospel . . . has revolutionized his soul. J. M. Mason.
• ENGAGEDNESS
  The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.
• EFFECTOR
  An effecter. Derham.
• EFFECTUATE
  To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill. A fit instrument to effectuate his desire. Sir P. Sidney. In order to effectuate the thorough reform. G. T. Curtis.
• REVOLUTIONIST
  One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution. Burke.
• GOVERNMENT
  The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. (more info) 1. The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
• FAVORER
  One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity. And come to us as favorers, not as foes. Shak.
• EFFECTION
  Creation; a doing. Sir M. Hale.
• EFFECTLESS
  Without effect or advantage; useless; bootless. Shak. -- Ef*fect"less*ly, adv.
• EFFECTER
  One who effects.
• ENGAGER
  One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety. Several sufficient citizens were engagers. Wood.
• CHANGEABLE
  1. Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor. 2. Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk. Syn. -- Mutable; alterable;
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• EXCHANGE EDITOR
  An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
• COUNTERCHANGED
  Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure. (more info)
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• COUNTERCHANGE
  1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange. 2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson.
• INEFFECTIVENESS
  Quality of being ineffective.
• GREENGAGE
  A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
• INTERCHANGEABILITY
  The state or quality of being interchangeable; interchangeableness.
• COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY; COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY
  marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution; as, ostracized for his counterrevolutionary tendencies. Opposite of revolutionary.
• ARCHANGELIC
  Of or pertaining to archangels; of the nature of, or resembling, an archangel. Milton.
• DISENGAGING
  Loosing; setting free; detaching. Disengaging machinery. See under Engaging.
• EXCHANGEABILITY
  The quality or state of being exchangeable. The law ought not be contravened by an express article admitting the exchangeability of such persons. Washington.
• INCHANGEABILITY
  Unchangeableness. Kenrick.
• INEFFECTIVE
  Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal. The word of God, without the spirit, a dead and ineffective letter. Jer. Taylor.
• PREENGAGEMENT
  Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection. My preëngagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write. Boyle.