noun
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A person who advocates the political interests of working farmers
adjective
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Of, or relating to, the ownership, tenure and cultivation of land.
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Agricultural or rural.
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Wild; said of plants growing in a cultivated field.
Examples of agrarian in a Sentence
I crossed the mighty Missouri River, leaving agrarian Nebraska in my rear view window.
The party headed by Ballance, Seddon and Ward held office without a break for more than seventeen years, a result mainly due to the general support given to its agrarian and labour policy by the smaller farmers and the working classes.
The agricultural interests were also represented directly in the Parliament by a strong Agrarian party.
Saturninus now brought forward an agrarian law, an extension of the African law already alluded to.
This is the agrarian system, in contrast to the orguia system, which was the itinerary series (33).
Many important financial and agrarian measures were carried between 1860 and 1890.
Decemvirs were also appointed from time to time to control the distribution of the public land (agris dandis adsi- 'see' Agrarian Laws).
In 1902 it was officially estimated that the public land available for permanent agrarian cultivation, including forest lands, was only 186,967 hectares (416,995 acres), almost wholly in the province of Oriente.
It was the union of the agrarian with the nationalist movements that made the downfall of the Austrian system inevitable.
There are a total 460 ' thanas ' or sub-districts in this mainly agrarian country.
Such estates have increased greatly in number and extent, not only in Java but elsewhere, since the agrarian law of 1870, under which it became possible for settlers to obtain waste lands on hereditary lease for 75 years.
The wealth of the country was principally agrarian.
The theory of the physiocrats now found powerful advocates in Denmark; and after 1755, when the press censorship was abolished so far as regarded political economy and agriculture, a thorough discussion of the whole agrarian question became possible.
Jefferson's statesmanship had the limitations of an agrarian outlook.
This measure caused much dissatisfaction, and gave rise to a strong agrarian movement, in consequence of which the government, in the beginning of 1895, before the assembling of the Riksdag, made use of its right of raising the two duties on corn just referred to, 3s.
In the following year Napper Tandy took a leading part in organizing a new military association in Ireland modelled after the French National Guards; they professed republican principles, and on their uniform the cap of liberty instead of the crown surmounted the Irish harp. Tandy also, with the purpose of bringing about a fusion between the Defenders and the United Irishmen, took the oath of the Defenders, a Roman Catholic society whose agrarian and political violence had been increasing for several years; but being threatened with prosecution for this step, and also for libel, he fled to America, where he remained till 1798.
The dreaded name of Whiteboy was first heard in 1761; and agrarian crime has never since been long absent.
In 1871 there had been an agrarian war in Westmeath, and an act had been passed authorizing the arrest of suspected persons and their detention without trial.
In 1881, 4439 agrarian outrages were reported; nothing attracted more attention in England than the cruel mutilations of cattle, which became very frequent.
In the first six months of the year 597 agrarian outrages were reported, and in the last six months 836.
Money enough was advanced out of the surplus property of the Irish Church to pay for tenants of holdings under X30 one year's rent upon all arrears accruing before November 1880, giving them a clear receipt to that date on condition of their paying another year themselves; of the many reasons against the measure the most important was that it was a concession to agrarian violence.
The number of agrarian outrages reported in the first six months of the year was 373; in the last six months they rose to 543, and the number of persons boycotted was almost trebled.
The Government of Ireland Bill gave no protection to landowners, but as the crisis was mainly agrarian, it would have been hardly decent to make no show of considering them.
Yet the special commission shed a flood of light on the agrarian and Nationalist movement in Ireland.
The crying abuses of the old rgime, an insignificant factor at the outset, soon combined with the widespread agrarian distress, due to the unjust distribution of land, the disastrous exploitation of the soil, the actions of the government, and the severe winter of 1788.
Discontent showed itself in pillage and incendiarism on country estates; between March and July 1789 more than three hundred agrarian riots took place, uprooting the feudal idea of property, already compromised by its own excesses.
The great landowners who formed the ordo senatorius had almost as much to fear from the agrarian insurgents known as bagaudac, who are indeed found acting with the Suebi, as from the barbarians.
The outbreak of the Comuneros in Castile coincided with the social and agrarian revolt in Valencia known as the Germania or brotherhood, from the name of the directing committee appointed by the insurgents.
After being educated at Berlin, Heidelberg and Budapest, he entered the ministry of the interior for the purpose of studying technical and economical questions at the fountain-head, and soon became a specialist in agrarian matters.
Sections of the Armenian population were differentiated from the predominantly agrarian, peasant population of Ottoman Turkey by economic position.
That is the conclusion of an analysis of household survey data from Nepal, a largely agrarian society with a sparse road network.
The essentially agrarian economy of the District is symbolized by the sheaves of wheat.
Prior to 1959, the Cuban economy was underdeveloped and primarily agrarian in character.
The so-called Rockite movement was more than just agrarian unrest.
Secret societies emerged in Ireland in the eighteenth century, using direct action to express agrarian discontent.
What was critical in the case of agrarian revolts was much more usually the land itself.
Instead it covers the predominantly suburban and agrarian landscape that separates Bolton and Wigan.
This was the cause of the agrarian unrest among the rural population.
For a time the propaganda had very little success, because the uneducated peasants and factory workers could not understand the phraseology and abstract principles of socialism; but when the propagandists descended to a lower platform and spread rumours that the tsar had given all the land to the peasants, and was prevented by the proprietors and officials from carrying out his benevolent intentions, there was a serious danger of agrarian disorders, and energetic measures were adopted by the authorities.
Mutinies occurred, it is true, during the next few weeks in Kronstadt and Sevastopol, and in December there was streetfighting for several days in Moscow, but such serious disorders were speedily suppressed, and thereafter the revolutionary manifestations were confined to mass meetings, processions with red flags, attempts on the lives of officials and policemen, robberies under arms and agrarian disturbances.
He made an attempt to oppose the agrarian law introduced by Caesar for distributing the lands of Campania, but was overpowered and even personally ill-treated by the mob.
An intimate friend of Tiberius Gracchus, he was chosen after his death to take his place on the agrarian commission (see Gracchus).
As the planet becomes more and more urbanized and people continue to move away from the agrarian life, cities are becoming megacities and towns are becoming cities.
The original dietary recommendations for protein were developed during the country's agrarian past, when people needed the energy from abundant protein to chop wood, fetch water, plow fields, and walk five miles to school every day.
In ages past when our agrarian ancestors toiled in the fields all day, sunlight exposure provided sufficient time for vitamin D manufacture.
Clearly, the opportunities available in China business are huge, as the country begins to shake off agrarian roots and step into the revealing spotlight of the 20th century.
The Chinese government, still a dictatorship based on an agrarian society of low-tech simple-tooled muscle, cracks the whip to get the wayward youths and the growing China business market under control.
It was only later in our evolution that we became agrarian societies that grew around the cultivation of grains.
The cultivated area may be divided into five agrarian regions or zones, named after the variety of tree culture which flourishes in them.
The relations between owners and tillers of the soil are still regulated by the ancient forms of agrarian contract, which have remained almost untouched by social and political changes.