The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carlist
Carlist \Car"list\ (k[aum]r"l[i^]st), n. A partisan of Charles X. of France, or of Don Carlos of Spain.
Usage examples of "carlist".
The sacred generalissimo led out his army from Asuncion in person, celebrating Mass himself, and then heading his troops like many another Spanish ecclesiastic has done before and after him, and continued doing even to the latest Carlist war.
In Spain, Ferdinand deeply offended the Carlists by his abolition of the salique law in favour of the child, if it should be a female, with which his queen was pregnant, and thus gave rise to a war which long desolated the northern provinces of Spain, as well as to the quadripartite treaty, under which it was hoped that the country might enjoy the blessings of a constitutional government.