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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A petty politician; a pretender to political knowledge or influence.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A petty politician.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A petty politician; a pretender in politics.

Etymologies

  1. From Italian politicastro, from politico + -astro ("diminutive suffix") (Wiktionary)

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  • “These were so continuously misleading and disingenuous that the lawyer politicaster who played such a rôle at Paris seemed despicable to the soldiery, and "rogue of a lawyer" was almost synonymous to the military mind with place-holder and civil ruler.”

    The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)

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