Dictionary (n.) An advocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington.Thesaurus absolute aristocratic authoritarian autocratic autonomous bureaucratic civic civil constitutional democratic despotic dictatorial fascist federal federalistic governmental gubernatorial heteronomous matriarchal matriarchic monarchal monarchial monarchic monocratic official oligarchal oligarchic parliamentarian parliamentary patriarchal patriarchic pluralistic political republican self-governing theocratic totalitarian |