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adj. 1. 1 advocating a cause or engaged in activism [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. archiviste. ] A keeper of archives or records. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 displaying characteristics of a previous cultural era or of a previous ancestral form; displaying atavism
Syn. -- atavic, throwback(prenominal) [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ A corruption of carry fist. ] (Falconary) A hawk which is of proper age and training to be carried on the hand; a hawk in its first year. Booth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. collectiviste. ] An advocate of collectivism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Relating to, characteristic of, or advocating, collectivism. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. operating under collectivist principles. [ Narrower terms: socialistic (vs. capitalistic), socialist; communistic ]
Syn. -- collectivized, state-controlled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. conclaviste, It. conclavista. ] One of the two ecclesiastics allowed to attend a cardinal in the conclave. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who favor or practices any from of exclusiveness or exclusivism. [ 1913 Webster ]

The field of Greek mythology . . . the favorite sporting ground of the exclusivists of the solar theory. Gladstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n., a. See Jehovist, Jehovistic. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. One who maintains that the vowel points of the word Jehovah, in Hebrew, are the proper vowels of that word; -- opposed to adonist. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The writer of the passages of the Old Testament, especially those of the Pentateuch, in which the Supreme Being is styled Jehovah. See Elohist. [ 1913 Webster ]

The characteristic manner of the Jehovist differs from that of his predecessor [ the Elohist ]. He is fuller and freer in his descriptions; more reflective in his assignment of motives and causes; more artificial in mode of narration. S. Davidson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to, or containing, Jehovah, as a name of God; -- said of certain parts of the Old Testament, especially of the Pentateuch, in which Jehovah appears as the name of the Deity. See Elohistic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A genus of fan palms of Asia and Australia and Malaysia.
Syn. -- genus Livistona. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An advocate of nativism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to nativism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A believer in ovism. Same as Ovulist. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ . See Panslavic, Panslavism, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who favors Panslavism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A believer in positivism. -- a. Relating to positivism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person who believes that acceptable practices should be prescribed by an authority rather than be determined by the usage of the general public; especially, a supporter of prescriptive{ 2 } rules of grammar; -- also used attributively, as prescriptivist grammar. [ PJC ]

n. One who is recidivous or is characterized by recidivism; an incorrigible criminal. -- Re*cid`i*vis"tic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

The criminal by passion never becomes a recidivist, it is the social, not the antisocial, instincts that are strong within him, his crime is a solitary event in his life. Havelock Ellis. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

a. 1. of, pertaining to, or in conformity with the theory of relativity; as, the relativistic increase of mass with velocity. [ PJC ]

2. moving at a speed sufficiently high that the changes of mass or time dilation predicted by the theory of relativity may be observed; moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light; as, relativistic electrons.br/ [ PJC ]

n. (physics) an equation expressing the mass of an object as a function of its velocity: as the velocity v of an object increases, its mass m increases from its rest mass m₀ according to the equation: m = m₀/1 - v2/c2 where c is the speed of light in a vacuum. If the speed of an object were to become equal to that of light, it can be seen that the mass would be infinite, from which it follows that nothing can accelerate up to or beyond the speed of light. [ PJC ]

☞ The theoretical possibility that there are particles which always move faster than light cannot at present be disproved and is not denied by this equation; in such a case, the relativistic mass equation asserts that such particles can never decelerate to or below the speed of light. Such hypothetical particles are referred to as
tachyons. [ PJC ]

n. A member of a reserve force of soldiers or militia. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Metaph.) One who holds to subjectivism; an egoist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Vistas [ It., sight, view, fr. vedere, p. p. visto, veduto, to see, fr. L. videre, visum. See View, Vision. ] A view; especially, a view through or between intervening objects, as trees; a view or prospect through an avenue, or the like; hence, the trees or other objects that form the avenue. [ 1913 Webster ]

The finished garden to the view
Its vistas opens, and its alleys green. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

The shattered tower which now forms a vista from his window. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A vista; a prospect. [ R. ] Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Through the long visto of a thousand years. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]