decembrist

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decembrist - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Decembrist \De*cem"brist\, n. (Russian Hist.)
     One of those who conspired for constitutional government
     against the Emperor Nicholas on his accession to the throne
     at the death of Alexander I., in December, 1825; -- called
     also Dekabrist.
  
           He recalls the history of the decembrists . . . that
           gallant band of revolutionists.          --G. Kennan.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]