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16th and 17th centuries
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partizan
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Partizan is the name of several rural localities in Russia : Partizan, Krasnodar Krai , a khutor in Skobelevsky Stanitsa Okrug of Gulkevichsky District in Krasnodar Krai ; Partizan, Ussuriysk, Primorsky Krai , a settlement under the administrative jurisdiction ...
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n. 1 (alternative spelling of partisan English) 2 (context obsolete English) A weapon of the 16 th and 17 th centuries consisting of a pike with a long double-edged blade, similar to a halberd.
WordNet
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adj. devoted to a cause or party [syn: partisan ] [ant: nonpartisan ] n. an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity [syn: enthusiast , partisan ] a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Partisan \Par"ti*san\ (p[aum]r"t[i^]*zan), n. [F., fr. It. partigiano. See Party , and cf. Partisan a truncheon.] An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest. ``The violence of a partisan.'' ...
Usage examples of partizan.
The population was, on the whole, better inclined to us than the army, nor did they show so much a disposition to wage what is called a partizan war, as to risk the fate of their country and the endurance of their power upon regular warfare, conducted in well-arranged campaigns and general battle.
It was well understood that the connection of the noble viscount with the whig government was not from any partizan predilections, but from approval of their foreign policy, and from a patriotic desire to maintain the honour and credit of the country in its relation to other states, by devoting his diplomatic talent and experience to the conduct of the foreign office.
In politics he was a whig partizan, but was not at heart attached to any school of politics.
There was a man, a gentleman and a knight, who had been a partizan of the White Rose, and who had fought and bled for it in various battles between the Duke of York and Henry VI.
All these reflexions coursed themselves through his brain, while, with the zeal of a partizan, and the fervour of one wedded to the justice of his cause, he revolved every probable change of time and fortune.
The Lord Fitzwater, a partizan of Henry, was then sojourning at Lisle.
King of England, not his monarch, but the partizan of Ormond, and therefore an enemy.
The establishment of Augustus on the throne of Poland was in some measure owing to the conduct of Peter the czar of Muscovy, who having formed great designs against the Ottoman Porte, was very unwilling to see the crown of Poland possessed by a partizan of France, which was in alliance with the grand seignor.
Mzu, prevent her from handing over the Alchemist to the Garissan partizan movement, retrieve the Alchemist.
Garissan partizan movement had pursued a course of consistently lacklustre activity.
Tunja system who knew the real reason for forming the Garissan partizan movement.
The partizan bodyguards were all sprawled on the floor with limbs twitching erratically.
The partizan leadership had been caught by the nerve short-out pulses, but the door and security screening had saved them from the worst effects.
He was never a good partizan, although all his life engaged in intrigues.
Now, I will not pretend to be anything but a strong partizan in this matter.