n. One opposed to the doctrines and practices of socialists or socialism. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Any theory or system that aims to combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of socialism in their applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others in England about 1850. -- Christian socialist. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. same as commercialization. [ Brit. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. same as commercialize. [ Brit. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The commercial spirit or method. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A financier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. [ 1913 Webster ]

Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. provincialisme. ] A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who lives in a province; a provincial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. socialisme. ] A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor. In popular usage, the term is often employed to indicate any lawless, revolutionary social scheme. See Communism, Fourierism, Saint-Simonianism, forms of socialism. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Socialism ] was first applied in England to Owen's theory of social reconstruction, and in France to those also of St. Simon and Fourier . . . The word, however, is used with a great variety of meaning, . . . even by economists and learned critics. The general tendency is to regard as socialistic any interference undertaken by society on behalf of the poor, . . . radical social reform which disturbs the present system of private property . . . The tendency of the present socialism is more and more to ally itself with the most advanced democracy. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]

We certainly want a true history of socialism, meaning by that a history of every systematic attempt to provide a new social existence for the mass of the workers. F. Harrison. [ 1913 Webster ]

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Socialism of the chair [ G. katheder socialismus ], a term applied about 1872, at first in ridicule, to a group of German political economists who advocated state aid for the betterment of the working classes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. socialiste. ] One who advocates or practices the doctrines of socialism. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, socialism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Devotion to a particular and restricted part or branch of knowledge, art, or science; as, medical specialism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to give or maintain equality of opportunity, as compulsory state insurance, old-age pensions, etc., answering closely to socialism of the chair. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who attends to anything superficially; a superficial or shallow person; a sciolist; a smatterer. [ 1913 Webster ]