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establishmentarian

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to support for the political or social establishment.
  • adjective Of or relating to support for the official status of an established church.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or connected with an established church, or the doctrine of establishment in religion.
  • noun An upholder of the doctrine of the recognition of a church by the state and its maintenance by law. [Rare.]

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who supports the political or social establishment

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

c 1850 establishment +‎ -arian

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Examples

  • As a recent Washington Monthly profile laid out, Hoyer is considered a centrist on foreign policy issues, an "establishmentarian" and the leadership's unofficial liason to the conservative Blue Dog Democrats caucus.

    Here's Your Handy Election Central Guide To Dem Leadership Battles 2009

  • This is, of course, nonsense, as has been pointed out even by mainstream establishmentarian economists like Laura D'Andrea Tyson, chairwoman of Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors, who observed that:

    Ian Fletcher: The Obama Administration's Clueless Trade Diplomacy Ian Fletcher 2011

  • Excepting, for two, when Katie Couric and Mayor Michael Bloomberg — representative of the DL/LEM *** and the establishmentarians in government — were virtually hoping it could be attributed to at least someone, anyone, on the center-right or right, there were no corresponding figures among the DL/LEM or establishmentarian government types on the right who were hoping it could be attributed to someone of theleft.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Faisal Shahzad Allegedly Admits to Attempted Times Square Bombing 2010

  • Excepting, for three, in addition to Couric and Bloomberg, there was an entire array of others among the DL/LEM and establishmentarian types in govt., including the administration, who were inline with the sentiments expressed by Couric and Bloomberg.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Faisal Shahzad Allegedly Admits to Attempted Times Square Bombing 2010

  • True, but vacuous, weasel-worded, fact-free, faux-expert prognostications by contemptible establishmentarian hacks rank pretty low on the list of charities I donate to.

    Matthew Yglesias » Staggeringly Off-the-Mark Forecasts of European Economic Preeminence 2010

  • What they are are establishmentarian types comfortable with the status quo who don't hate gay people and want their wives and daughters and selves to have access to abortion and accept it more or less as a given that poor people's children probably shouldn't be left to starve in the streets, provided it doesn't cost too much money to feed them and move them inside at least during the winter.

    Disproving their liberal bias by giving liberals a wedgie 2009

  • Casting him as the corrupt and vicious Cuban police captain known as the Red Vulture struck me as inspired until I remembered how often Kovacs the absurdist, iconoclastic comedian appeared in movies playing establishmentarian authority figures straight.

    For todays active man 2010

  • This is, of course, nonsense, as has been pointed out even by mainstream establishmentarian economists like Laura D'Andrea Tyson, chairwoman of Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors, who observed that:

    Ian Fletcher: The Obama Administration's Clueless Trade Diplomacy Ian Fletcher 2011

  • What they are are establishmentarian types comfortable with the status quo who don't hate gay people and want their wives and daughters and selves to have access to abortion and accept it more or less as a given that poor people's children probably shouldn't be left to starve in the streets, provided it doesn't cost too much money to feed them and move them inside at least during the winter.

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • This is, of course, nonsense, as has been pointed out even by mainstream establishmentarian economists like Laura D'Andrea Tyson, chairwoman of Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors, who observed that:

    Ian Fletcher: The Obama Administration's Clueless Trade Diplomacy Ian Fletcher 2011

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