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Definition: Decembrist
Decembrist
\De*cem"brist\, n. (Russian Hist.)
One of those who conspired for constitutional government
against the Emperor Nicholas on his accession to the throne
at the death of Alexander I., in December, 1825; -- called
also
Dekabrist.
He recalls the history of the decembrists . . . that
gallant band of revolutionists. --G. Kennan.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]