[f. as prec. + -IST.]
1. A member or representative of the class of land-owners: cf. TERRITORIAL 1 c.
1865. Pall Mall G., 22 July, 10/2. [The candidate] has no land in the county, and very little influence over the territorialists.
1867. B. Cracroft, in Brodrick, Ess. Reform, 164. If we add 246 to 256 we get 502 as the ascertained number of the territorialists in the House of Commons.
1901. Daily Record & Mail, 21 Dec., 4. A compulsory disposal of the land from territorialists to settlers.
2. A member of a Jewish organization, whose aim is to secure a separate territory for the Jews: cf. quot. 1906 s.v. TERRITORIAL 1.
1905. Daily Chron., 31 July, 5/3. The territorialists … were bent on forcing [the Zionist] congress to accept the Gnas Ngishu plateau as a counsel of despair. Ibid. (1909), 9 Sept., 3/4. The … ‘Territorialists’ … maintain that the true aim of the Jews ought to be to obtain an autonomous settlement anywhere—Uganda, for instance, or even Argentina.
