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populist |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Populist \Pop"u*list\, n. [L. populus people + -ist.] (U. S. Politics) A member of the People's party. -- {Pop`u*lis"tic}, a. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: populist n : an advocate of democratic principles [syn: {democrat}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old red soapstone underlying Kansas; characterized by an uncommon spread of ear, which some naturalists contend gave him the power of flight, though Professors Morse and Whitney, pursuing independent lines of thought, have ingeniously pointed out that had he possessed it he would have gone elsewhere. In the picturesque speech of his period, some fragments of which have come down to us he was known as "The Matter with Kansas."
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