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agitant

noun

Etymology

From Latin agitāns, present participle of agitō (“to shake, brandish, agitate”); equivalent to agitate + -ant.

  1. borrowed from agitātus
  2. inherited from agitat — “set in motion”
  3. formed as agitant — “agitate + -ant”

Definitions

  1. A person who agitates.

    • 1665, Robert Howard, The Committee, Act III, Scene 1, in Five New Plays, London: Henry Herringman, 1692 p. 77, Now am I ready for any Plot; I’ll go find some of these Agitants, and fill up a blank Commission with my Name.
    • Garofalo and Ferri were the foremost agitants for victim compensation in the nineteenth century.
    • If it were up to those two, he said, all political agitants would be locked up in jail.

  2. A thing that agitates.

    • […] he also promised that the convention would take a stand on the Vietnam conflict, which was such an agitant for young people—in Germany as in the United States—waving Viet Cong flags and shouting, "Ho-Ho-Ho Chi Minh!”

  3. That agitates.

    • […] at her white bosom is that patch incarnadine—the red, red rose. Agitant and tremulous it has burst open, and its pure heart lies bare.
    • The slow rhythm of her song grew agitant and restless.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Obsolete spelling of adjutant.

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