[f. as prec. + -IST.]
1. = CONTINENTAL sb. 1.
1834. Coleridge, Table-t., 5 July. I believe that Robinson Crusoe and Peter Wilkins could only have been written by islanders. No continentalist could have conceived either tale.
1865. Daily Tel., 4 Nov., 5/3. Sometimes I think … we English … are wrong, and the apathetic Continentalist right.
2. Amer. Hist. An advocate of the federation of the revolted colonies after the War of Independence.
