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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



706 words match “LIST”

REENLISTMENT n.
A renewed enlistment.
REVIVALIST n.
A clergyman or layman who promotes revivals of religion; an advocate for religious revivals; sometimes, specifically, a clergyman, without a particular charge, who goes about to promote revivals. Also used adjectively.
REVIVALISTIC a.
Pertaining to revivals.
RITUALIST n.
One skilled un, or attached to, a ritual; one who advocates or practices ritualism.
RITUALISTIC a.
Pertaining to, or in accordance with, a ritual; adhering to ritualism.
ROYALIST n.
urbons in france); one attached to monarchical government. Where Ca'ndish fought, the Royalists prevailed. Waller.
RURALIST n.
One who leads a rural life. Coventry.
RURICOLIST n.
An inhabitant of the country. [R.] Bailey.
RUSSOPHILE; RUSSOPHILIST n.
One who, not being a Russian, favors Russian policy and aggrandizement. -- Rus*soph"ilism, n. [Chiefly newspaper words.]
SACRAMENTALIST n.
One who holds the doctrine of the real objective presence of Christ;s body and blood in the holy eucharist. Shipley.
SCIOLIST n.
erer. These passages in that book were enough to humble the presumption of our modern sciolists, if their pride were not as great as their ignorance. Sir W. Temple. A master were lauded and scolists shent. R. Browning.
SCIOLISTIC a.
Of or pertaining to sciolism, or a sciolist; partaking of sciolism; resembling a sciolist.
SCRIPTURALIST n.
One who adheres literally to the Scriptures.
SCRUPULIST n.
A scrupler. [Obs.]
SCRUTIN DE LISTE n.
r a group of candidates for the same kind of office on one ticket or ballot, containing a list of them; -- the method, used in France, as from June, 1885, to Feb., 1889, in elections for the Chamber of Deputies, each elector voting for the candidates for the whole department in which he lived, as disting. from scrutin…
SENSATIONALIST n. 2 definitions
An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.
SENSUALIST n. 2 definitions
One who is sensual; one given to the indulgence of the appetites or senses as the means of happiness.
SENSUALISTIC a. 2 definitions
Sensual.
SENTIMENTALIST n.
One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling.
SEXUALIST n.
One who classifies plants by the sexual method of Linnæus.
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