Crossword clues for parliamentarian
parliamentarian
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parliamentarian \Par`lia*men*ta"ri*an\, a.
Of or pertaining to Parliament.
--Wood.
Parliamentarian \Par`lia*men*ta"ri*an\, n.
(Eng. Hist.) One who adhered to the Parliament, in opposition to King Charles I.
--Walpole.One versed in the rules and usages of Parliament or similar deliberative assemblies; as, an accomplished parliamentarian.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s as a designation of one of the sides in the English Civil War; meaning "one versed in parliamentary procedure" dates from 1834. See parliamentary + -ian.
Wiktionary
a. Of or relating to parliament. n. 1 A member of a parliament, congress or an elected national legislative body of another name. 2 A person well-versed in parliamentary procedure. 3 An officer in most legislative bodies charged with being well-versed in the parliamentary rules of that legislative house, and whose rulings are taken as authoritative, to be appealed only to the whole of the house itself under special rules.
Wikipedia
Parliamentarian may refer to a member or supporter of a Parliament, as in:
- Member of Parliament
- Roundhead, supporter of the parliamentary cause in the English Civil War
Parliamentarian may also refer to an expert adviser on parliamentary procedure, as in:
- Parliamentarian (consultant), an officer or outside consultant designated by an organization to serve as an expert in parliamentary procedure
- Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives
- Parliamentarian of the United States Senate
- A member of the National Association of Parliamentarians
- A member of the American Institute of Parliamentarians
- An official of the National Forensic League, who regulates a chamber of Student Congress
A parliamentarian is an expert on parliamentary procedure who advises organizations and deliberative assemblies. This sense of the term "parliamentarian" is distinct from the usage of the same term to mean a member of Parliament.
Usage examples of "parliamentarian".
There can be little doubt that the great amount of stained glass still remaining in the minster is owing to the control he exercised over the Parliamentarians.
As Parliamentarians met with the guilds, whose demands became more organised, as the Caucus spoke out from its unsubtle front organs, Pelorus Fields was anxious.
On April 6, following the first protests against the price increases, Olivera, a trade union official, with a coalition of 14 economists, parliamentarians, lawyers and community leaders, accepted a government invitation to discuss the IWL price hikes.
Is it not some further satisfaction to you to have saved my life as you did by arriving so fortunately with Monk, when those damned parliamentarians wanted to burn me alive?
What we have constantly to keep before the eyes of our understanding is that the world-historical significance of the struggle demands the direct intervention of the proletariat in social life, and not just some kind of parliamentarian republicanism or military semi-absolutism.