[f. FUNCTIONARY + -ISM.] The system of administration by means of functionaries; the characteristic bearing and manner of functionaries; officialism.
1842. Taits Mag., IX. 177. That new power which in this country is termed official patronage, and which Mr. Laing calls Functionarism.
1851. Ht. Martineau, Hist. Peace (1877), III. IV. xiii. 121. By a rapid and perpetual extension of functionarismby planting officials all over the country to do the work of central departments seated in Parishe [Louis Philippe] was casting a net over France, by means of which he could draw the representation into his own hands, and govern with ever-improving unity of planstill and always for the nations own good.
1880. Friedrich von Schultz, Bureaucracy and its Operation in Germany and Austria-Hungar, in Contemporary Review, XXXVII. March, 432. Functionarism is one of the most characteristic phenomena in Germany.
1885. The Saturday Review, LX. 3 Oct., 463. What Mr. Newmarch called functionarism in opposition to individualismthe State undertaking the functions of the individual, and meddling with the moral obligations of the communityis what all sound economists fear.