phalansterian, a. and n.
(fælænˈstɪərɪən)
[ad. F. phalanstérien, f. phalanstère: see -ian.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining or relating to a phalanstery, or the system of phalansteries.
| 1844 Hennell Soc. Syst. 211 Two thousand colonists who intended to establish a Phalanstèrian Society at St. Catherine. 1875 N. Amer. Rev. CXX. 186 Unless children are to be afterwards reared and educated like chickens in an Egyptian oven upon Phalansterian principles. |
B. n. a. A member of a phalanstery.
b. An advocate of the system of phalansteries; a Fourierist.
| 1843 Fraser's Mag. XXVIII. 341 Members of secret societies, clubbists, phalansterians. 1895 Layard in 19th Cent. June 1069 Now, we are not Phalansterians. Phalansteries have been tried and failed. |
Hence
phalanˈsterianism, the phalansterian system, Fourierism; so
phalansteric (
-ˈɛrɪk)
a., pertaining to or characterized by phalansteries;
ˈphalansteˌrism = phalansterianism;
ˈphalansteˌrist = phalansterian, B. b.
| 1848 Tait's Mag. XV. 706 The world once fixed, and *phalansterianism universally adopted, Fourier's first care is to pay the English national debt. |
| 1884 G. Allen Strange Stories 320 The final outcome..of all our modern *phalansteric civilization. |
| 1877 Echo 28 Sept. 1/4 *Phalansterism or Fourierism. |
| 1882 Standard 2 Aug., Social *phalansterists, who look upon all forms of aristocracy as deplorable survivals of a dark age. |