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used adjectively; as, home- rule members of Parliament. -- Home ruler, one who favors or advocates home rule. -- Home run (Baseball), a complete circuit of the bases made before the batted ball is returned to the home base. -- Home stretch (Sport.), that part of a race course between the last curve and the winning p…

eats of ideas; one who theorizes or idealizes; one versed in the science of ideas, or who advocates the doctrines of ideology.

A member of the International; one who believes in, or advocates the doctrines of, the International.

Pronunciation of e in the English word be. This was the pronunciation advocated by ReuEtacism. In all such questions between a the confusing element of itacism comes in. Alford.

dustrial Workers of the World (the name of two American labor organizations, one of which advocates syndicalism).

The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges. Judge Advocate (Mil. & Nav.), a person appointed to act as prosecutor at a court-martial; he acts as the representative of the government, as the responsible adviser of the court, and also, to a certain extent, as counsel for the accused, when he h…

general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advocates.

One who practices or advocates strict conformity to law; in theology, one who holds to the law of works. See Legal, 2 (a).

art of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women.

ed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc. [Eng.]

An advocate of, or believer in, monarchy.

One who advocates national unity and independence; one of a party favoring Irish independence.

An advocate of nativism.

An advocate of the doctrine of philosophical necessity; a nacessitarian.

One who advocates adheres to new laws; esp. one who holds or believes that the gospel is a new law.

One who advocates or practices nephalism.

One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist.

d be made to constituted authority, even when unjustly or oppressively exercised; one who advocates or practices absolute submission; also, one who holds that violence should never be resisted by force.

[R.] Evelyn. So run that ye may obtain. 1 Cor. ix. 24. There is due from the judge to the advocate, some commendation, where causes are fair pleaded; especially towards the side which obtaineth not. Bacon.

An advocate or supporter of oligarchy.