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in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation. As Jesus at meat . . . many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. Matt. 1x. 10. How like a fawning publican he looks! Shak.

Of or pertaining to a republic. The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named by the senate. Macaulay.

A republican form or system of government; the principles or theory of republican government.

To change, as a state, into a republic; to republican principles; as, France was republicanized; to republicanize the rising generation. D. Ramsay.

olution, which became a sign of patriotism at that epoch; hence, a revolutionist; a Red Republican.

dvocacy of revenge on Germany attracted to him a miscellaneous party of monarchists and Republican malcontents. -- Bou*lan"gist (#), n.

tives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left.

deration of such states, having only limited powers. It is advocated by advanced French republicans; but it should not be confounded with communism.

tle or defense in legal pleading. If the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles. Madison.

The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vendémiare.

Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government.

The third month of the French republican calendar. It commenced November 21, and ended December 20., See Vendémiaire.

The twelfth month of the French republican calendar; -- commencing August 18, and ending September 16. See Vendémiaire.

The seventh month of the French republican calendar [1792 -- 1806]. It began March 21 and ended April 19. See VendÉmiaire.

A member of the moderate republican party formed in the French legislative assembly in 1791. The Girondists were so called because their leaders were deputies from the department of La Gironde.

execution of a treaty. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government. Constitution of the U. S.

ent; gynecocracy. The aforesaid state has repeatedly changed from absolute despotism to republicanism, not forgetting the intermediate stages of oligarchy, limited monarchy, and even gynocracy; for I myself remember Alsatia governed for nearly nine months by an old fishwoman. Sir H. Scott.

ed object is; as, he takes in the situation (i. e., he comprehends it in his mind); the Republicans were in (i. e., in office); in at one ear and out at the other (i. e., in or into the head); his side was in (i. e., in the turn at the bat); he came in (i. e., into the house). Their vacation . . . falls in so pat with…

embers of a legislative assembly (as in France) who are in the opposition; the advanced republicans and extreme radicals. They have their seats at the left-hand side of the presiding officer. See Center, and Right.

the constitution or administration of government; having tendency toward democratic or republican, as distinguished from monarchical or aristocratic, forms; as, liberal thinkers; liberal Christians; the Liberal party. I confess I see nothing liberal in this " order of thoughts," as Hobbes elsewhere expresses it. Hazli…