Definition of Populest

Definition of Populest

Pop"u*list (?), n. [L. populus people + -ist.] (U. S. Politics) A member of the People's party. -- Pop`u*lis"tic (#), a.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found
in the old red soapstone underlying Kansas; characterized by an
uncommon spread of ear, which some naturalists contend gave him the
power of flight, though Professors Morse and Whitney, pursuing
independent lines of thought, have ingeniously pointed out that had he
possessed it he would have gone elsewhere. In the picturesque speech
of his period, some fragments of which have come down to us, he was
known as "The Matter with Kansas."

- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A person sympathetic to the needs, rights, and aspirations of the common people.
A member of a United States political party formed in 1891 and active especially in the presidential campaign of 1892 primarily to represent agrarian interests and to advocate the free coinage of silver and government control of monopolies.

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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