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Washingtonian  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy.
2.
Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence.





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"Washingtonian" Quotes from Famous Books



... said Captain Pharo to the haughty Washingtonian; "yit you don't know nothin' 'bout ructions. You can repeal every optional act 't a man makes, but you ain't ...
— Vesty of the Basins • Sarah P. McLean Greene
... temperance hymns in Wales followed the spread of the "Washingtonian" movement on the other side of the Atlantic in 1840, and began a moral reformation in the county of Merioneth that resulted in a spiritual one, and added to the churches several thousand converts, scarcely any ...
— The Story of the Hymns and Tunes • Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth


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