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Etymology

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Compare French idéologue.

Noun

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idealogue (plural idealogues)

  1. One given to fanciful ideas or theories; someone who theorizes or speculates.
    • 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Eighth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, [], published 1857, →OCLC:
      Government,
      If veritable and lawful, is not given
      By imposition of the foreign hand,
      Nor chosen from a pretty pattern-book
      Of some domestic idealogue who sits
      And coldly chooses empire, where as well
      He might republic.
  2. Someone who espouses a particular ideology, particularly a political one.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for idealogue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)