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noun

Parliamentarian n.

(Eng. Hist.) One who adhered to the Parliament, in opposition to King Charles I.

One versed in the rules and usages of Parliament or similar deliberative assemblies; as, an accomplished parliamentarian.

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Etymology of 'Parliamentarian'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Parliamentarian" Quotes from Famous Books

... he was a Western shoot early engrafted on the political society of Washington—the most political of all cities, for it is a political capital and nothing else. He entered Congress young and found there exactly the atmosphere that suited his tastes and temperament. He was as much the perfect parliamentarian as Gladstone. For how much his tact and instinct for the tone of the political assembly in which he moved counted may be guessed from this fact: that while there is no speech of his that has come down to us that one could place for a moment beside some of ...

— A History of the United States • Cecil Chesterton

... 24, 1646, the last fighting Royalist left Oxford. In the following Michaelmas, Wood returned "to the home of his nativitie." He found Oxford "empty as to scholars, but pretty well replenished with Parliamentarian soldiers." In his opinion the young men of the city and the University had reaped less benefit from the Royalist occupation than their seniors; the latter had gained "great store of wealth from the court and royalists that had for several years ...

— The Life and Times of John Wilkins • Patrick A. Wright-Henderson

... an odd set, with the most opposite opinions. For me, I am a Legitimist; then there is Durocher, my physician and friend, who is a rabid Republican; Hedouin, the tutor, is a parliamentarian; while Monsieur our sub-prefect is a devotee to the government, as it is his duty to be. Our cure is a little Roman—I am Gallican—'et sic ceteris'. Very well—we all agree wonderfully for two reasons: first, because we are sincere, which is a very ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... imprisonment for life in Carnarvon Castle. He was subsequently removed to the Castle of Mont Orgueil, in Jersey, where he received kind treatment from his jailor, Sir Philip de Carteret. Prynne was conducted in triumph to London after the victory of the Parliamentarian party, and became a member of the Commons. His pen was ever active, and he left behind him forty volumes of his works, a grand monument of ...

— Books Fatal to Their Authors • P. H. Ditchfield

Words linked to "Parliamentarian" : British House of Commons, Robert, Member of Parliament, House of Commons, Henry Martyn Robert, Henry M. Robert, expert, legislator