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Washingtonian   Listen
adjective
Washingtonian  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy.
2.
Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence.





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"Washingtonian" Quotes from Famous Books



... the commotion arising from Jay's treaty. Though I can not speak earnestly from actual knowledge, we must all concede that these were the times when political strife assumed a formidable aspect—when the press most flagrantly outraged individual rights and domestic peace—when the impugners of the Washingtonian administration received new weapons, with which to inflict their assaults upon tried patriotism, by every arrival from abroad announcing France in her progress. The federalists and the anti-federalists now became the federal and the republican ...
— Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. • Benson J. Lossing
... the old Washingtonian Societies, composed entirely of men, were gradually replaced by the Sons of Temperance, and as they also were decidedly averse to receiving women into their organization, and as the latter were deeply ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various


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