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PARTISAN, or PARTIZAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 871 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PARTISAN, or PARTIZAN . (I) A thoroughgoing " party " See also:man or adherent, usually in a depreciatory sense of one who puts his party before principles; (2) an irregular combatant or See also:guerrilla soldier; (3) a weapon with a See also:long See also:shaft and a broad bladed See also:head, of a type intermediate between the See also:spear and the halberd (q.v.). In senses (1) and (2) the word is derived through the Fr. from Ital. partigiano, from parteggiare, to See also:share, take See also:part in, See also:Lat. pars, part. The name for the weapon has also been attributed to the same origin, as being that used by " partisans," but there is no See also:historical See also:evidence for this. The See also:form which the word now takes in See also:French, pertuisane, has given rise to a connexion with pertuis, hole; Lat. pertusus, pertundere, to strike through.

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