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n.
One who advocates extreme measures; an ultraist; an extremist; a radical.
n.
One who advocates, or believes in, theanthropism.
n.
An advocate of, or believer in, traditionalism; a traditionist.
imp. & p. p.
of Advocate
n.
Office or duty of an advocate.
n.
One who advocates romanticism in modern literature.
n.
One skilled un, or attached to, a ritual; one who advocates or practices ritualism.
a.
Eagerly pressing or urgent; zealous; ardent; earnest; bold; valiant; intrepid; as, a strenuous advocate for national rights; a strenuous reformer; a strenuous defender of his country.
n.
An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.
a.
Of or pertaining to A. G. Werner, The German mineralogist and geologist, who classified minerals according to their external characters, and advocated the theory that the strata of the earth's crust were formed by depositions from water; designating, or according to, Werner's system.
n.
One who advocates the undulatory theory of light.
v. t.
To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink.
n.
The principles of those who advocate extreme measures, as radical reform, and the like.
n.
An advocate of sanitary measures; one especially interested or versed in sanitary measures.
n.
One who advocates voluntaryism.
n.
One who practices or advocates vivisection; a vivisector.
n.
One who advocates or promotes union; especially a loyal supporter of a federal union, as that of the United States.
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One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.
v. i.
To act as advocate.
n.
One of a political party which grew up in England in the seventeenth century, in the reigns of Charles I. and II., when great contests existed respecting the royal prerogatives and the rights of the people. Those who supported the king in his high claims were called Tories, and the advocates of popular rights, of parliamentary power over the crown, and of toleration to Dissenters, were, after 1679, called Whigs. The terms Liberal and Radical have now generally superseded Whig in English politics. See the note under Tory.
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