Definitions

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  • noun A member of a unit of irregular soldiers or resistance fighters; a partisan.

Etymologies

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From various Balkan languages, all from Turkish komitacı,, from komita (from French comité ("committee")) + -cı.

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Examples

  • She came in contact with Lyubibratitch, the Herzegovinian chief, and at once joined the forces in the field, attaching herself to a party of comitadji led by a French officer.

    Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV 1969

  • Sometimes she went back to Holland to see her family, who regarded her visits with repugnance because she talked of her outlandish adventures, wore strange comitadji-cum-deaconess clothes, smoked big black cigars, and was still a believing Christian of the ecstatic sort.

    Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV 1969

  • Sometimes she went back to Holland to see her family, who regarded her visits with repugnance because she talked of her outlandish adventures, wore strange comitadji-cum-deaconess clothes, smoked big black cigars, and was still a believing Christian of the ecstatic sort.

    Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV 1941

  • She came in contact with Lyubibratitch, the Herzegovinian chief, and at once joined the forces in the field, attaching herself to a party of comitadji led by a French officer.

    Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV 1941

  • She came in contact with Lyubibratitch, the Herzegovinian chief, and at once joined the forces in the field, attaching herself to a party of comitadji led by a French officer.

    Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV 1941

  • Sometimes she went back to Holland to see her family, who regarded her visits with repugnance because she talked of her outlandish adventures, wore strange comitadji-cum-deaconess clothes, smoked big black cigars, and was still a believing Christian of the ecstatic sort.

    Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV 1941

  • She came in contact with Lyubibratitch, the Herzegovinian chief, and at once joined the forces in the field, attaching herself to a party of comitadji led by a French officer.

    Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV 1941

  • Sometimes she went back to Holland to see her family, who regarded her visits with repugnance because she talked of her outlandish adventures, wore strange comitadji-cum-deaconess clothes, smoked big black cigars, and was still a believing Christian of the ecstatic sort.

    Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV 1941

  • _comitadji_ [revolutionist] Mihaylo Ciganovitch; and (2) that the organizer and instigator of the outrage was Major

    The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902

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