czarist

Definition

Alternative spelling of tsarist.

Etymology

From czar + -ist.

Example Sentences

• "Had China been partitioned in the years immediately following 1895,* Czarist Russia would have obtained an area north of the Yellow River which constitutes nearly 40 per cent of the entire Chinese territory. But from 1900,** the United States stood opposed to the partition of China by advocating the Open Door Policy."