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Word Meanings - FEDERALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

the principles of Federalists or of federal union.

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  • FEDERALIST
    An advocate of confederation; specifically , a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington.
  • UNIONISTIC
    Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.
  • FEDERAL
    1. Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations; constituted by a compact between parties, usually governments or their representatives. The Romans compelled them, contrary
  • FEDERALISM
    the principles of Federalists or of federal union.
  • UNIONISM
    1. The sentiment of attachment to a federal union, especially to the federal union of the United States. 2. The principles, or the system, of combination among workmen engaged in the same occupation or trade.
  • UNIONIST
    1. One who advocates or promotes union; especially a loyal supporter of a federal union, as that of the United States. 2. A member or supporter of a trades union.
  • UNION
    A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as
  • FEDERALIZE
    To unite in compact, as different States; to confederate for political purposes; to unite by or under the Federal Constitution. Barlow.
  • INTERCOMMUNION
    Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
  • REUNION
    1. A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects. 2. An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a
  • NONUNIONIST
    One who does not belong, or refuses to belong, to a trades union.
  • EXCOMMUNION
    . A shutting out from communion; excommunication. Excommunication is the utmost of ecclesiastical judicature. Milton.
  • NONUNION
    1. Not belonging to, or affiliated with, a trades union; as, a nonunoin carpenter. 2. Not recognizing or favoring trades unions or trades-unionists; as, a nonunion contractor. --Non*un"ion*ism , n.
  • DISUNIONIST
    An advocate of disunion, specifically, of disunion of the United States.
  • DISUNION
    1. The termination of union; separation; disjunction; as, the disunion of the body and the soul. 2. A breach of concord and its effect; alienation. Such a disunion between the two houses as might much clouClarendon. 3. The termination or disruption
  • POSTCOMMUNION
    The concluding portion of the communion service.
  • TRADES-UNIONIST; TRADE-UNIONIST
    A member of a trades union, or a supporter of trades unions.
  • ART UNION
    An association for promoting art , and giving encouragement to artists.
  • WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
    An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
  • ANTECOMMUNION
    A name given to that part of the Anglican liturgy for the communion, which precedes the consecration of the elements.
  • NONCOMMUNION
    Neglect or failure of communion.
  • ANTI-FEDERALIST
    One of party opposed to a federative government; -- applied particularly to the party which opposed the adoption of the constitution of the United States. Pickering.
  • TRADES UNION; TRADE UNION
    An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc.
  • COMMUNION
    1. The act of sharing; community; participation. "This communion of goods." Blackstone. 2. Intercourse between two or more persons; esp., intimate association and intercourse implying sympathy and confidence; interchange of thoughts, purposes,

 

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