idealogue

English

Etymology

Compare French idéologue.

Noun

idealogue (plural idealogues)

1. One given to fanciful ideas or theories; someone who theorizes or speculates.
   • 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Eighth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     Government,
     If veritable and lawful, is not given
     By imposition of the foreign hand,
     Nor chosen from a pretty pattern-book
     Of some domestic idealogue who sits
     And coldly chooses empire, where as well
     He might republic.

2. Someone who espouses a particular ideology, particularly a political one.

Related terms

• ideologue

Translations

someone who theorizes

• Armenian: գաղափախոս (gaġapʻaxos), տեսաբան (hy) (tesaban)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 空想家 (zh) (kōngxiǎng jiā)

• Spanish: ideólogo m

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “idealogue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)