rare. [f. AMBITION sb. + -IST.] One who is ruled by ambition.
1655. Trapp, Marrow of Auth. (1868), 812/1. Oh, therefore that our aspiring ambitionists would but measure themselves by their own model. Ibid. (1657), Comm. Esther v. 5. Cæsar Borgia, that restless ambitionist.
1827. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), IV. 146 (D.). Napoleon … became a selfish ambitionist and quack.
