rare. [f. as prec. + -IST.] One who supports transition; in quot. 1856 attrib.
1823. Marsh, in Times, 3 March, 3/3. There were the transitionists, who thought that all the evil arose from the sudden transition from war to peace.
1856. E. G. K. Browne, Tractarian Movem. (1861), 438. The advanced guard of the Transitionist party.
1921. Altoona Tribune, 1 April, 5/1. What we should feel is that we are transitionists. Then by proper pulling and boosting we can build for the homeless, feed the starving, clothe the naked and give employment to the idle.
