Word Meanings - FEDERALIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• FRIENDED
  1. Having friends; 2. Iuclined to love; well-disposed. Shak.
• FAVOR
  Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe.
• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• PRESIDENT
  Precedent. Bacon.
• ADVOCATE
  advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or
• CONSTITUTIONALIST
  One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.
• CONFEDERATION
  1. The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particulary of princes, nations, or states. The three princes enter into some strict league and confederation among themselves. Bacon. This was no less than a political
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• FAVORITE
  Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. Farquhar. (more info) p.p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to 1. A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with
• CONSTITUTION
  1. The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation. 2. The state of being; that form of being, or structure and connection of parts, which constitutes and characterizes
• UNITIVE
  Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union. Jer. Taylor.
• FAVORABLE
  1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate;
• UNITARIANISM
  The doctrines of Unitarians.
• FRIENDSHIP
  1. The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no
• POLITICALLY
  1. In a political manner. 2. Politicly; artfully. Knolles.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• UNITARIANIZE
  To change or turn to Unitarian views.
• MALCONFORMATION
  Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
• MISREMEMBER
  To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.
• UNFRIEND
  One not a friend; an enemy. Carlyle.
• METROPOLITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall.
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• DEFORMATION
  1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall. 2. Transformation; change of shape.
• IMPOLITICAL
  Impolitic. -- Im`po*lit"i*cal*ly, adv. Bacon.