(n.) One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; -- called also Seekers. See Seeker.
(n.) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.
Example Sentences:
(1) They seem to think in a toxic media market, dominated by professional ranters and by one player, News Corp, intent on using its market dominance to pursue bleedingly obvious political and commercial agendas – that the ABC is not only comprehensive and reliable, but essential.
(2) Within this apocalyptic tradition, Cohn identified the Flagellants who massacred the Jews of Frankfurt in 1349; the widespread heresy of the Free Spirit; the 16th-century Anabaptist theocracy of Münster (though some have criticised Cohn's account of this extraordinary event as lurid); the Bohemian Hussites; the instigators of the German peasants' war; and the Ranters of the English civil war.
(3) For Abbott, on the precipice of fulfilling his destiny in politics, it would have seemed like collegiality, not outright soul-selling, to become a man for Peta and for Brian down in party headquarters, a man for the colleagues, a man for the Liberal party base, a man for Rupert and for Alan Jones and for Ray Hadley (when Scott Morrison wasn’t available) – a man who would validate the various irrationalisms of the wireless ranters and the white male columnists in Rupert’s employ – young and older fogeys who cherish past certainties, and who feel just as ambivalent about the future as Abbott himself feels.
(4) It is a book fair in October with "all-day cabaret starring assorted ranters, poets, singers and comics; all-day film showings and two kids' spaces".
(5) MSNBC's resident ranter and news commentator Keith Olbermann – who once described a Republican senator as "an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model" – tweeted his umbrage at Stewart's intimation that he is unhelpfully hyperbolic, possibly before smashing his Blackberry underfoot.
(6) The derogatory comedy of Bernard Manning and Benny Hill was elbowed off the airwaves by proudly anti-racist, anti-sexist comics of the younger generation: anti-Thatcher ranter Ben Elton; Alexei Sayle, who describes his younger self as "a fat man in a suit, shouting at people for not being political enough"; feminist comics French and Saunders, Emma Thompson and Jo Brand.
(7) This week he will be interviewed by the rightwing ranter, radio host Rush Limbaugh, Limbaugh's TV equivalents, all three prime time hosts on Fox News, and play verbal softball with Oprah Winfrey.
(8) We were correct not to engage with the ranters on the right.
(9) More pub ranter than soundbite-spewing talking head.
(10) This has not been not a harmonious year, and male rage is definitely part of the landscape – the trolls, men’s rights movement misogynists, Gamergate ranters, and the perpetrators of the actual violence, which has not stopped.
(11) An intriguing snapshot of a hack's navel, it at least earned me the grand sobriquet "Ranter of the Guardian" in the Daily Mail (who know a thing or two about publishing ill-thought-through opinions themselves, after all), though the affair needn't be examined in any further detail here.
(12) This week’s cause for irritability is the stupidity of both the pro-privatisation lobby (the government and red-necked Conservatives, who want to privatise everything that moves) and the anti-privatisationists (the “keep your mucky capitalist hands off our perfect NHS” ranters).
(13) More than any other modern novelist, he has used fiction as confession and the displacement of confession: his ranters, complainers and alter egos, from Portnoy to Zuckerman to Mickey Sabbath all seem Rothian, even when they are only standing in for Roth.
Santer
Definition:
(v. i.) See Saunter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many would see this as somewhat over the top, but given Santer's past experiences, it is at least understandable.
(2) It was the assertion of a "balance of evidence" that Santer added.
(3) Indeed it is striking that people with a limited scientific involvement with CRU who have been victims of past attacks – such as Kevin Trenberth of the US government's National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Ben Santer of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – became regular email correspondents with Jones and his colleagues.
(4) It accused Santer of "scientific cleansing" — a reference to the ethnic cleansing then going on in the Balkans.
(5) In the world of science, Santer's team had the last word.
(6) Santer says he saw "serious scientific flaws" in the paper and recommended that the journal reject it.
(7) At least one senior colleague and co-author on the paper in question thought Santer would be best advised to hand over the data.
(8) One man who has battled against climate sceptics longer than most is the climate modeller Ben Santer, who completed his PhD in climate science at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the 1983 before going to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
(9) Santer, for instance, concluded in one email in 2008 that McIntyre "has no interest in rational scientific discourse.
(10) Santer fights freedom of information request In November 2008, Santer believed he was being dragged back into the front line, when he received an freedom of information request from sceptic Stephen McIntyre.
(11) Santer told me the words were added to his chapter late, and without full consultation.
(12) Critics point to a section of an earlier draft of the chapter that was deleted by Santer at this stage.
(13) Santer buttonholed Jones's colleague at CRU, Tim Osborn, a member of the editorial board of the journal.
(14) Hero or villain, his data wars with Mann, Jones, Briffa and Santer largely created the siege mentality among the scientists, set them on a path of opposition to freedom of information, and by drawing in scores of data liberationists inside and outside the science community, almost certainly inspired whoever stole and released the emails.
(15) Santer wrote in an email on 3 December 2008 to Tom Wigley: "I'm damned and publicly vilified because I refused to provide McIntyre with the data he requested.... Had I acceded, I am convinced I would have spent years of my scientific career dealing with demands for further explanations, additional data, Fortran codes [a programming language] etc... For the remainder of my scientific career I'd like to dictate my own research agenda."
(16) This finding is in complete agreement with the previous report that human neuroblastoma cell lines contained an unusually large proportion of metabolically incorporated L-[3H]fucose in this specific linkage (U. V. Santer and M. C. Glick, Cancer Res., 43:4159-4166, 1983).
(17) But such a rule puts the scientists in a difficult position, and Santer had the unenviable job of rewording his chapter to reflect the wording of the political summary.
(18) With the Santer paper published, McIntyre weighed in.
(19) They complained in the American Thinker in December 2009 about a surreptitious strategy involving the authors of the paper and the editors of the journal of "delaying [our paper] and not allowing [us] to have a simultaneous response to Santer et al."
(20) Osborn noted to Santer of their discussion the next day : "The only thing I didn't want to make more generally known was the suggestion that print publication of Douglass et al.