a. [f. UNIONIST sb.1 + -IC.] Of or relating to, characteristic of, unionists; advocating, promoting, or favorable to union or unionism.
1860. Worcester (citing Schaff).
1867. Ld. Acton, Lett. (1906), 346. The Bishop of Mentz … has written a pamphlet decidedly unionistic.
1882–3. Schaff’s Encycl. Relig. Knowl., II. 1683. When the unionistic measures of Bucer were being discussed.
1884. American, VIII. 6. For this reason the simply unionistic feeling burned in the northwest.
