The Collaborative International Dictionary
Popular \Pop"u*lar\, a. [L. popularis, fr. populus people: cf. F. populaire. See People.]
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Of or pertaining to the common people, or to the whole body of the people, as distinguished from a select portion; as, the popular voice; popular elections. ``Popular states.''
--Bacon. ``So the popular vote inclines.''
--Milton.The men commonly held in popular estimation are greatest at a distance.
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Suitable to common people; easy to be comprehended; not abstruse; familiar; plain.
Homilies are plain popular instructions.
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Adapted to the means of the common people; possessed or obtainable by the many; hence, cheap; common; ordinary; inferior; as, popular prices; popular amusements.
The smallest figs, called popular figs, . . . are, of all others, the basest and of least account.
--Holland. Beloved or approved by the people; pleasing to people in general, or to many people; as, a popular preacher; a popular law; a popular administration.
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Devoted to the common people; studious of the favor of the populace. [R.]
Such popular humanity is treason.
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Prevailing among the people; epidemic; as, a popular disease. [Obs.]
--Johnson.Popular action (Law), an action in which any person may sue for penalty imposed by statute.
--Blackstone.
Wikipedia
The Popular Action (, AP) is a political party in Peru.
Popular Action is a political party in El Salvador. It first contested national elections in 2003, when it received 1.1% of the vote, but failed to win a seat.
Popular Action may refer to:
- Popular Action (El Salvador)
- Popular Action (Italy)
- Popular Action (Peru)
- Popular Action (Spain)
- Popular Action (Equatorial Guinea)
- Actio popularis
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Popular Action ( Spanish: Acción Popular), until 1932 National Action , was a Spanish Roman Catholic political party active during the Second Spanish Republic.
The group was formed after the fall of the monarchy and the defeat of monarchist parties in the 1931 elections, in order to defend the interests of Roman Catholics in the new Spanish Republic. It emanated from the Asociación Católica Nacional de Propagandistas and effectively formed a political party drawn from this hard-line monarchist movement. The main leader of Popular Action was editor of El Debate and future cardinal Ángel Herrera Oria. In 1932, the National Alliance had to change its name, because parties and political movements were prohibited to use the word "national" in their names.
The Popular Action sought to unite the right-wing, monarchist and Catholic camp and thus became the core of a conservative federation of parties, the Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Right-wing Groups (CEDA), established in 1933.
Even after the formation of CEDA the party's youth movement, Juventudes de Acción Popular (commonly known as the Greenshirts) continued to organise. However in the spring of 1936 the decline of Popular Action was underlined when 15,000 Greenshirts left the movement to join the Falange instead. On the eve of the Spanish Civil War Popular Action had around 12,000 members. When Francisco Franco announced his decree establishing the Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista on 19 April 1937 Popular Action was one of a number of parties absorbed into this new pan- right group.
Popular Action (Azione Popolare, AP) is a conservative political party in Italy.
It was founded by Silvano Moffa as an association of former members of National Alliance who left Future and Freedom to return into the centre-right fold in late 2010. Moffa has been also leader of the group of People and Territory in the Italian Chamber of Deputies since 2011.
In 2012 AP formed Popular Construction along with The Populars of Italy Tomorrow, the Christian Movement of Workers and the Extended Christian Pact.