Word Meanings - ULTRAISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The principles of those who advocate extreme measures, as radical reform, and the like. Dr. H. More.

Related words: (words related to ULTRAISM)

• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• 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
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• EXTREMELESS
  Having no extremes; infinite.
• RADICALNESS
  Quality or state of being radical.
• RADICAL
  One who advocates radical changes in government or social institutions, especially such changes as are intended to level class inequalities; -- opposed to conservative. In politics they were, to use phrase of their own time. "Root-and-Branch men,"
• REFORMATORY
  An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders. Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to reformatories instead of to prisons. Eng. Cyc.
• REFORMIST
  A reformer.
• REFORMABLE
  Capable of being reformed. Foxe.
• REFORMLY
  In the manner of a reform; for the purpose of reform. Milton.
• REFORMED
  Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop; -- said of an officer. (more info) 1. Corrected; amended; restored to purity or excellence; said, specifically, of the whole body of Protestant churches
• RADICALLY
  1. In a radical manner; at, or from, the origin or root; fundamentally; as, a scheme or system radically wrong or defective. 2. Without derivation; primitively; essentially. These great orbs thus radically bright. Prior.
• EXTREME
  Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them. (more info) 1. The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity. 2. Utmost limit or degree that is supposable or tolerable; hence,
• REFORMADO
  1. A monk of a reformed order. Weever. 2. An officer who, in disgrace, is deprived of his command, but retains his rank, and sometimes his pay.
• REFORMER
  One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin. (more info) 1. One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer
• RADICALISM
  The quality or state of being radical; specifically, the doctrines or principles of radicals in politics or social reform. Radicalism means root work; the uprooting of all falsehoods and abuses. F. W. Robertson.
• REFORMADE
  A reformado.
• RADICALITY
  1. Germinal principle; source; origination. Sir T. Browne. 2. Radicalness; relation to root in essential to a root in essential nature or principle.
• REFORM
  Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government. Civil service reform. See under Civil. -- Reform acts , acts of Parliament passed in 1832, 1867, 1884, 1885, extending and
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• SPORADICAL
  Sporadic.
• PREFORMATIVE
  A formative letter at the beginning of a word. M. Stuart.
• EQUIRADICAL
  Equally radical. Coleridge.
• PREFORMATION
  An old theory of the preëxistence of germs. Cf. Emboîtement.
• WHEREFORM
  From which; from which or what place. Tennyson.
• XANTHOSE
  An orange-yellow substance found in pigment spots of certain crabs.