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One skilled in evolutions.

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

ists in the French Revolution, which became a sign of patriotism at that epoch; hence, a revolutionist; a Red Republican.

revolution opposed to a former one, and restoring a former state of things. -- Counter revolutionist, one engaged in, or befriending, a counter revolution. -- Counter round (Mil.), a body of officers whose duty it is to visit and inspect the rounds and sentinels. -- Counter sea (Naut.), a sea running in an opposite…

The abnormal change of an irregular flower to a regular form; - - considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral condition.

A revolutionist. [R.] Dumfries was a Tory town, and could not tolerate a revolutionary. Prof. Wilson.

One who is engaged in effecting a revolution; a revolutionist. Smollett.

Hence, an extreme or radical republican; a violent revolutionist; a Jacobin.