parliamentarian

plural parliamentarians · alternative Parliamentarian

1. CommonwealthA member of a parliament, congress or an elected national legislative body of another name.

   Synonyms: member of parliament, MP, deputy, congressman

2. A person well-versed in parliamentary procedure.
3. USAn officer in most legislative bodies charged with being well-versed in the parliamentary rules of that legislative house, and whose rulings are taken as authoritative, to be appealed only to the whole of the house itself under special rules.

comparative more parliamentarian · superlative most parliamentarian · alternative Parliamentarian

1. Of or relating to a parliament; favouring the establishment of a parliament.

   a parliamentarian democracy; the parliamentarian movement

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   1946, Office of United States Chief Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality, Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Washington, Volume 1, citing Wilhelm Frick, Our participation in the parliament does not indicate a support, but rather an undermining of the parliamentarian system.

   Synonyms: parliamentary

2. historicalOf or relating to the Parliamentarians (supporters of the parliament during the English Civil War (1642–1651)).

   There were large regions which were very decidedly royalist, others almost as distinctly parliamentarian [...]

   1895, Hereford Brooke George, chapter 9, in Battles of English History,, London: Methuen, page 128

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   [...] Deputies were sent with Commissions into all the Counties; and the Parliamentarian Rebels by force and their own authority, invade the Militia, which they could not obtain from the King by petitioning.

   1685, George Bate, Elenchus Motuum Nuperorum in Anglia, or, A Short Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Late Troubles in England, London, page 41

   But while he continued there, he shew’d himself a Dunce, a Tale-bearer to the Parliamentarian Visitors that then acted in the University, and a factious person.

   1692, Anthony Wood, Athenæ Oxonienses, volume 2, London: Thomas Bennet, page 291

   The Scotch and parliamentarian army had joined, and were beſieging York; when prince Rupert, joined by the marquis of Newcaſtle, determined to raiſe the ſiege.

   1771, [Oliver] Goldsmith, “Charles I. (Continued.)”, in The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of George II. […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] Davies, […]; [T.] Becket and [P. A.] De Hondt; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 271

plural Parliamentarians

1. Alternative letter-case form of parliamentarian, particularly
   1. historicalA supporter of the English Parliament during the English Civil War.