The Collaborative International Dictionary
Actionary \Ac"tion*a*ry\, Actionist \Ac"tion*ist\, n. [Cf. F. actionnaire.] (Com.) A shareholder in joint-stock company. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context business obsolete English) A shareholder in a joint-stock company. 2 (context art English) One taking part in the actionism movement.
Usage examples of "actionist".
Farleyfile system would break down if I attempted to mix with crowds, not to mention the unknown hazards of the Actionist goon squads--what I would babble with a minim dose of neodexocaine in the forebrain none of us liked to think about, me least of all.
Farleyfile system would break down if I attempted to mix with crowds, not to mention the unknown hazards of the Actionist goon squads-what I would babble with a minim dose of neodexocaine in the forebrain none of us liked to think about, me least of all.
But it seems likely that such a plan of private ownership would not be tolerated under a Socialist government, for, first of all, a very large number of Socialists are opposed to such a plan, and, secondly, the political actionists who have favored it either have sacrificed thereby the principles of their party, or else by advocating the private ownership of small farms, have done so with the intention of deceiving farmers and small land owners in order to win their votes.
The direct actionists by their inflammatory speeches and writings are especially successful in gaining recruits from among the more disorderly elements of society, whereas the political actionists appeal rather to those persons who are opposed to the destruction of life and property.
But it would indeed mean that the same forces who control the Actionists also control the machinery of the Humanity Party.
In a sense, the serial killers of the 1990s were the spiritual children of the hippies of the sixties, and their common ancestors would be the Viennese Actionists of the fifties.
In the guise of performance art, Actionists like Nitsch, Muehl and Schwarzkogler had conducted animal sacrifices in public.
This Dionysian pleasure in the release of bestiality and evil, begun by the Viennese Actionists, can be traced through every succeeding decade.
The direct actionists are a warning to the Socialist Party that its tactics and its program are not adequate to domesticating the deepest unrest of labor.
Actionists, beatniks, hippies and serial killers were all pure libertarians who affirmed the rights of the individual against social norms and against what they believed to be the hypocrisy of morality, sentiment, justice and pity.
Apparently, he had hoped that the direct actionists would wait for the new Administration to take the lead in Civil Rights.
There goes the tidy world welfare state the Actionist types hope to build.