partizan

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Dora belonged to a whist club which met every Friday afternoon on strictly partizan lines, except for once a year, when they asked the men in.

From Of All Things by Benchley, Robert C.

The way was thus paved for the participation of Rome, as a partizan of the anti-Macedonian faction, in the struggles which had so long divided the Greek world.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

Richard Edgcumbe had a narrower escape however from the vengeance of Richard III., after the suppression of Buckingham's revolt, in which he was a partizan, being strongly attached to the fortunes of the Red Rose.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton

If one is to speak at all of its present aspects, on this high-day of your University year, he should do so only as a patriot, not as a partizan.

From Problems of Expansion As Considered In Papers and Addresses by Reid, Whitelaw

In the partizan the pike is the more important, the axe-heads being reduced to little more than an ornamental feature.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various