n. The principles or measures of abolitionists. Wilberforce. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who performs or procures abortion; among medical personnel, also called an abortion provider. The word abortionist has negative connotations from the time when the practise was illegal in the United States, and the latter term is preferred among those who do not consider the procedure as morally reprehensible. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. An idealist. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A player on the accordion. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. F. actionnaire. ] (Com.) A shareholder in joint-stock company. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who exhibits affectation. [ R. ] Fitzed. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One excessively ambitious. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who favors annexation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An annexationist. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Theol.) One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An annotator. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a person who is opposed to legal voluntary abortion. [ PJC ]

n. An antivaccinist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One opposed to vivisection [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Philos.) The doctrine or theory held by associationists. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Philos.) One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An advocate for a metallic currency, or a paper currency always convertible into gold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who believes in the law of universal causation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who joins or promotes a coalition; one who advocates coalition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force.
Syn. -- collaborator, quisling. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A friend to colonization, esp. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who favors concession. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. confessioniste. ] One professing a certain faith. Bp. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Psychol.) an approach to psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties.
Syn. -- Gestalt psychology. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who adheres to the constitution of the country. Bolingbroke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who puts a certain construction upon some writing or instrument, as the Constitutions of the United States; as, a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes or practices contortions; especially, a gymnast who is able to twist the limbs into positions impossible for normal people to achieve. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. One who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloquialism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who converses much, or who excels in conversation. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An advocate or defender of convocation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who has convulsions; esp., one of a body of fanatics in France, early in the eighteenth century, who went into convulsions under the influence of religious emotion; as, the Convulsionists of St. Médard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of the same religion with another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A co-religion&unr_;ist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to traducianism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who advocates the practice of cremation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as decontruction{ 1 }.
Syn. -- deconstruction. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. Of or pertaining to deconstruction or deconstructionism; as, deconstructionist criticism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who advocates or encourages defection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A demolisher. [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing institutions; a destructive. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Theol.) One who believes in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked; -- called also annihilationist. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. One given to devotion, esp. to excessive formal devotion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A writer of dissertations. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A distributer. [ R. ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An advocate of disunion, specifically, of disunion of the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]