a. [f. prec. + -IC.]
1. Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, socialism; in accordance with the theory of socialism.
(a) 1848. N.-Y. Tribune, 25 April, 1/2 (Bartlett App.). That we have … profoundly rejoiced in the Revolution itself, and more especially in its socialistic aspects and tendencies.
1863. H. Spencer, Ess., II. 238. And similarly with countless socialistic schemes.
1863. Fawcett, Pol. Econ., II. i. 104. Various socialistic experiments were made by Robert Owen.
(b) 1858. Sat. Rev., VI. 639. An elaborate system of socialistic order.
1882. Froude, in Fortn. Rev., CCXXIX. 744. Socialistic equality is pretty and becoming in Utopia.
1894. W. G. Sumner, in Forum (N.Y.), March, 101. In any socialistic state there will be one set of positions which will offer chances of wealth beyond the wildest dreams of avarice, viz. on the governing committees.
2. Advocating or favoring socialism.
1864. Athenæum, 12 March, 366/2. Fernando Garrido … celebrated as a socialistic republican.
1880. McCarthy, Own Times, III. 233. Chevalier,… who from having been a member of the socialistic sect … had come to be a practical politician.
Hence Socialistically adv.
1887. Co-operative News, July, 657. An amount of saving which even socialistically disposed workmen ought not to disregard.
1892. Pall Mall Gaz., 30 March, 6/2. They [miners] are in no wise socialistically inclined, he considered.
