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Definition of Agitators
1. agitator [n] - See also: agitator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agitators
Literary usage of Agitators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Great Civil War, 1642-1649 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1901)
"5 " Careful investigation," writes Dr. Murray in The New English Dictionary, sv
agitators, "satisfies me that Agitator was the actual title, ..."
2. The American Petroleum Industry by Raymond Foss Bacon, William Allen Hamor (1916)
"agitators The treatment of petroleum products with sulphuric acid and alkali ...
When under cover, such agitators may be open above; but if erected in the ..."
3. The Clarke Papers: Selections from the Papers of William Clarke, Secretary by William Clarke (1891)
"You must by all meanes frame a Petition in the name of ail the Souldiers, to be
presented to the Generall by you the agitators, to have him in honour, ..."
4. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"agitators,2 and the revival of the disused General 'of ... in order that these
agitators asked for. might again have an equal voice with the officers in ..."
5. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1835)
"IN opposing an open and determined resistance to the demand of the Irish agitators
for a repeal of time union, ministers carried along with them the sense ..."
6. Coal-tar and Ammonia by Georg Lunge (1887)
"Mechanical agitators in Tar-stills. Sometimes mechanical agitators are employed in
... Mechanical agitators are also mentioned in Audouin's patent (No. ..."
7. Select Tracts Relating to the Civil Wars in England, in the Reign of King ...by Francis Maseres by Francis Maseres (1815)
"... and future prosperity : it also gives such a lively picture of the fierce and
violent designs that were then entertained by the agitators and Levellers, ..."
8. A Handbook of the Petroleum Industry by David Talbot Day (1922)
"agitators.—agitators may be classified according to the purpose of their use, as,
... Class (a) agitators vary in size from 250 to 5000 barrels. ..."
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