AGITATOR

Agitator

An agitator is a person who actively supports some ideology or movement with speeches and especially actions. The Agitators were a political movement as well as elected representatives of soldiers, including the New Model Army of Oliver Cromwell, during the English Civil War. They were also known as adjutators. Many of the ideas of the movement were later adopted by the Levellers.

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agitator

Noun

  1. One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators.
  2. An implement for shaking or mixing.
  3. One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; called also adjutators.


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