PARTISAN, or PARTIZAN . (I) A thoroughgoing " party " man or adherent, usually in a depreciatory sense of one who puts his party before principles; (2) an irregular combatant or guerrilla soldier; (3) a weapon with a
. The name for the weapon has also been attributed to the same origin, as being that used by " partisans," but there is no historical evidence for this. The form which the word now takes in
, pertuisane, has given rise to a connexion with pertuis, hole; Lat. pertusus, pertundere, to strike through. But the most probable derivation is from the
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