sb. and a. Also Buonapartist. [see -IST.]
A. sb. An adherent of the government and dynasty of the Bonapartes in France.
1815. J. W. Croker, in Papers (1884), I. iii. 61. We drove into Abbeville, where the garrison were savage Buonapartists.
1873. Daily News, 12 Sept., 4/4. A blank denial of the national sovereignty, hitherto a first article in the faith alike of Orleanists, Republicans, and Bonapartists.
B. adj. Adhering to Bonaparte or Bonapartism.
1869. Pall Mall Gaz., 1 Sept., 2. A new Bonapartist pillar of Imperialism.
