parliamentarian

Noun (1)

parliamentarian (plural parliamentarians)

1. (Commonwealth) A member of a parliament, congress or an elected national legislative body of another name.

   Synonyms:

   member of parliament, MP, deputy, congressman

2. A person well-versed in parliamentary procedure.
3. (US) An officer in most legislative bodies charged with being well-versed in the parliamentary rules of that legislative house, and whose rulings are taken as authoritative, to be appealed only to the whole of the house itself under special rules.

Adjective

parliamentarian (comparative more parliamentarian, superlative most parliamentarian)

1. Of or relating to a parliament; favouring the establishment of a parliament.
   • a parliamentarian democracy; the parliamentarian movement
   • Our participation in the parliament does not indicate a support, but rather an undermining of the parliamentarian system.1946, Office of United States Chief Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality, Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Washington, Volume 1, citing Wilhelm Frick

   Synonyms:

   parliamentary

2. (historical) Of or relating to the Parliamentarians (supporters of the parliament during the English Civil War (1642–1651)).
   • [...] Deputies were sent with Commissions into all the Counties; and the Parliamentarian Rebels by force and their own authority, invade the Militia, which they could not obtain from the King by petitioning.1685, George Bate, Elenchus Motuum Nuperorum in Anglia, or, A Short Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Late Troubles in England, London, page 41
   • But while he continued there, he shew’d himself a Dunce, a Tale-bearer to the Parliamentarian Visitors that then acted in the University, and a factious person.1692, Anthony Wood, Athenæ Oxonienses, volume 2, London: Thomas Bennet, page 291

Noun (2) capitalized: Parliamentarian

IPA/ˌpɑː(ɹ)ləmənˈtɛəɹiən/

Parliamentarian (plural Parliamentarians)

1. Alternative letter-case form of parliamentarian, particularly
   1. (historical) A supporter of the English Parliament during the English Civil War.