revolutionary

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

REVOLU'TIONARY, adjective 1. Pertaining to a revolution in government; as a revolutionary war; revolutionary crimes or disasters. 2. Tending to produce a revolution; as revolutionary measures.
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