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Parliamentarian   /pˌɑrləməntˈɛriən/   Listen
Parliamentarian

noun
1.
An elected member of the British Parliament: a member of the House of Commons.  Synonym: Member of Parliament.
2.
An expert in parliamentary rules and procedures.






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"Parliamentarian" Quotes from Famous Books



... Everard who commanded at Stoke. Another Sir William, a staunch Royalist, was created Earl of Denbigh, and died in fighting King Charles's battles. Of his two sons, the elder, Basil, who succeeded to the title, was a Parliamentarian, and served at Edgehill under Essex. George, his second son, was raised to the peerage of Ireland as Viscount Callan, with succession to the earldom of Desmond; and from this, the younger branch of ...
— Fielding - (English Men of Letters Series) • Austin Dobson

... are embodied the ideas which, as a parliamentarian, as head of the Italian Government, and as a writer, I have upheld with firm conviction during the ...
— Peaceless Europe • Francesco Saverio Nitti

... Carlisle, Speaker of the House, is a thorough parliamentarian, who rises above party lines in his rulings and is the model of courtesy in the chair. The clearness and the fairness with which he states a question to the House has never been equaled, and his ready recollection of precedents is wonderfully accurate. He is the fourth Kentuckian who has wielded ...
— Perley's Reminiscences, Vol. 1-2 - of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis • Benjamin Perley Poore

... Everard. It is true, they were Presbyterians and he an Independent; and that though sharing those feelings of correct morality and more devoted religious feeling, by which, with few exceptions, the Parliamentarian party were distinguished, the Everards were not disposed to carry these attributes to the extreme of enthusiasm, practised by so many others at the time. Yet it was well known that whatever might be Cromwell's own religious creed, he was ...
— Woodstock; or, The Cavalier • Sir Walter Scott



Words linked to "Parliamentarian" :   legislator, House of Commons, Henry Martyn Robert, Henry M. Robert, Robert, expert, British House of Commons, Member of Parliament



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