parliamentarian

  1. Proper noun.  a supporter of parliament during the English Civil War.
  2. Noun.  A member of a parliament, congress or an elected national legislative body of another name.
  3. Noun.  A person well-versed in parliamentary procedure.
  4. Noun.  An officer in most legislative bodies charged with being well-versed in the parliamentary rules of that legislative house, and whose rulings are taken as authoritative, to be appealed only to the whole of the house itself under special rules.

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