Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who belongs to a party, club, or association; a supporter of clubs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A member of a club; a frequenter of clubs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
member of aclub ; one whofrequents clubs.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is because the parishes in his domain are "clubbist," governed by associations of moral and practical levelers; in one of them "the brigands have organized themselves into a municipal body," and have chosen their leader as procureur-syndic.
The French Revolution - Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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He has always acted as sovereign instinctively; he was so as a private individual and clubbist; he is not to cease being so, now that he possesses legal authority, and all the more because if he hesitates he knows he is lost; to save himself from the scaffold he has no refuge but in a dictatorship.
The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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Every clubbist, or any person suspected of being one, received five and twenty lashes in the presence of Kalkreuth, the Prussian general.
Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835
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"Commission on External Relations" a former school-master is taken, an inept clubbist, bar-fly and the pillar of the billiard-room, scarcely able to read the documents brought to him to sign in the café where he passes his days. [
The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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"A cowardly bourgeoisie, directors in cellars, a clubbist (Jacobin) municipality, waging the most illegal war against us."] [Footnote 3320: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3200.
The French Revolution - Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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