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Ryersonian ((n.)) Hist.

• n. a supporter of Egerton Ryerson 1803-1882, Upper Canadian Methodist leader and Reformer (def. 1).

  See also: Reformer (def. 1)  Saddlebag  

  • 1830  Those Christian Pharisees, the Ryersonians, govern our elections and we must go with the tide.
  • 1833  Methodist preachers--as the cant term "Ryersonian" designates--have used every effort to procure the signatures of children to political grievance petitions, and even prostituted the pulpit to such work.