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78 words match “REPUBLIC”

REPUBLIC n. 2 definitions
Common weal. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
REPUBLICAN a. 7 definitions
Of or pertaining to a republic. The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named by the senate. Macaulay.
REPUBLICANISM n. 3 definitions
A republican form or system of government; the principles or theory of republican government.
REPUBLICANIZE v.
To change, as a state, into a republic; to republican principles; as, France was republicanized; to republicanize the rising generation. D. Ramsay.
REPUBLICATE v.
To make public again; to republish. [Obs.]
REPUBLICATION n.
ther; a reprint. If there be many testaments, the last overthrows all the former; but the republication of a former will revokes one of a later date, and establishes the first. Blackstone.
AMALGAMA n.
Same as Amalgam. They divided this their amalgama into a number of incoherent republics. Burke.
ARGENTINE a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to the Argentine Republic in South America.
BATAVIAN a.
g to (a) the Batavi, an ancient Germanic tribe; or to (b) as, a Batavian legion. Batavian Republic, the name given to Holland by the French after its conquest in 1795.
BONNET ROUGE n.
evolution, which became a sign of patriotism at that epoch; hence, a revolutionist; a Red Republican.
BOULANGISM n.
advocacy of revenge on Germany attracted to him a miscellaneous party of monarchists and Republican malcontents. -- Bou*lan"gist (#), n.
BRUMAIRE n.
The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire.
CANTON n.
rial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement.
CARBONARO n.
the early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing the government into a republic.
CENTER n.
vatives 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.
CHIEF JUSTICE n.
ted States, the presiding judge of the Supreme Court, and Highest judicial officer of the republic.
COMBAT v.
sing force; to fight. To combat with a blind man I disdain. Milton. After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters. Gibbon.
COMMUNALISM n.
federation of such states, having only limited powers. It is advocated by advanced French republicans; but it should not be confounded with communism.
CONGRESS n.
The collective body of senators and representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation.
CONSOLIDATE v.
body; to bring together in close union; to combine; as, to consolidate the armies of the republic. Consolidating numbers into unity. Wordsworth.
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