[a. F. carlisme, Sp. carlismo, f. Carlos Charles + -ISM.] Attachment to Don Carlos, second son of Charles IV. of Spain, and his heirs, as the legitimate successors of Ferdinand VII. (died 1833), to the exclusion of the daughter of the latter, and her heirs; Spanish legitimism. So Carlist sb., an adherent of Don Carlos; adj., pertaining to Carlism.
1830. Ann. Reg., 287. The Carlists were in fact the party of the Church.
1834. Gentl. Mag., CIV. I. 97. Vittoria, the seat of Carlism.
1836. Gen. Thompson, Brit. Legion, v. 130. Lest the eloquence of the Carlist had been of a nature to induce the Christino to desert.
1873. Spectator, 23 Aug., 1061/2. The delinquencies of some foolish partisans of Carlism.
