[f. VETO sb. + -IST.] One who exercises the right, or supports the use, of the veto; one who advocates the possession of a power of veto, esp. for some particular purpose.
The term has been specifically applied to supporters of (a) a veto on the appointment of Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland, (b) the Veto Act of the Church of Scotland, (c) local veto on the sale of liquor.
1822. New Monthly Mag., V. 484. A little further on you will come upon another, a group of learned vetoists and anti-vetoists.
1832. Blackw. Mag., XXXI. 355. The vetoists … intimate their disapprobation by hissing the unfortunate performer.
1840. Gladstone, Ch. Princ., 489. The principle for which the Vetoists contend I believe is … really this [etc.].
1863. A. H. Charteris, Life J. Robertson, iv. 68. If … the vetoists desired to give effect to the people’s conscientious objections.
1896. Westm. Gaz., 25 Nov., 5/2. He considers that unless the Liberal Party is dissociated from the Temperance reformers and Vetoists … its future will be disastrous.
Hence Vetoistic, Vetoistical adjs.
1815. D. O’Connell, in W. J. Amherst, Hist. Cath. Emancip. (1886), II. 183. He came into Ireland on a vetoistical mission.
1861. W. J. Fitz-Patrick, Life Doyle (1880), I. 163. Dr. Milner branded Mr. Plunket’s bills as vetoistic.
1862. F. C. Husenbeth, Life Bp. Milner, 155. His subsequent uniform opposition to every form of Vetoistical arrangement.
