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Word Meanings - REPUBLICAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to a republic. The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named by the senate. Macaulay. 2. Consonant with the principles of a republic; as, republican sentiments or opinions; republican manners. Republican party. (U.S.

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1. Of or pertaining to a republic. The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named by the senate. Macaulay. 2. Consonant with the principles of a republic; as, republican sentiments or opinions; republican manners. Republican party. (U.S. Politics) An earlier name of the Democratic party when it was opposed to the Federal party. Thomas Jefferson was its great leader. One of the existing great parties. It was organized in 1856 by a combination of voters from other parties for the purpose of opposing the extension of slavery, and in 1860 it elected Abraham Lincoln president.

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  • POPULARIZATION
    The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people.
  • DEMOCRATICAL
    Democratic. The democratical was democratically received. Algernon Sidney.
  • DESTRUCTIVENESS
    The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy. (more info) 1. The quality of destroying or ruining. Prynne.
  • LEVELER
    1. One who, or that which, levels. 2. One who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist.
  • LEVEL
    libella level, water level, a plumb level, dim. of libra pound, measure for liquids, balance, water poise, level. Cf. Librate, 1. A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is
  • RADICALNESS
    Quality or state of being radical.
  • POPULAR
    1. Of or pertaining to the common people, or to the whole body of the people, as distinguished from a select portion; as, the popular voice; popular elections. "Popular states." Bacon. "So the popular vote inclines." Milton. The commonly held in
  • DEMOCRATIC
    1. Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people. 2. Relating to a political party so called. 3. Befitting the common people; -- opposed to aristocratic. The Democratic party, the name
  • DESTRUCTIVELY
    In a destructive manner.
  • RADICALLY
    1. In a radical manner; at, or from, the origin or root; fundamentally; as, a scheme or system radically wrong or defective. 2. Without derivation; primitively; essentially. These great orbs thus radically bright. Prior.
  • SUBVERSIVE
    Tending to subvert; having a tendency to overthrow and ruin. Lying is a vice subversive of the very ends and design of conversation. Rogers.
  • REPUBLICANIZE
    To change, as a state, into a republic; to republican principles; as, France was republicanized; to republicanize the rising generation. D. Ramsay.
  • POPULARES
    The people or the people's party, in ancient Rome, as opposed to the optimates.
  • POPULARNESS
    The quality or state of being popular; popularity. Coleridge.
  • REPUBLICANISM
    1. A republican form or system of government; the principles or theory of republican government. 2. Attachment to, or political sympathy for, a republican form of government. Burke. 3. The principles and policy of the Republican party, so called
  • LEVELISM
    The disposition or endeavor to level all distinctions of rank in society.
  • LEVELLY
    In an even or level manner.
  • POPULARIZE
    To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy. "The popularizing of religious teaching." Milman.
  • LEVELNESS
    The state or quality of being level.
  • POPULARITY
    1. The quality or state of being popular; especially, the state of being esteemed by, or of being in favor with, the people at large; good will or favor proceeding from the people; as, the popularity of a law, statesman, or a book. A popularity
  • SPORADICAL
    Sporadic.
  • SEA LEVEL
    The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
  • EQUIRADICAL
    Equally radical. Coleridge.
  • WATER LEVEL
    1. The level formed by the surface of still water. 2. A kind of leveling instrument. See under Level, n.
  • AIR LEVEL
    Spirit level. See Level.

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