capitalist (kapitalist)

[ I take the expenditure of the capitalist , not the value of the capital, as my standard. Burke , A Regicide Peace. I wish to see workmen becoming by degrees their own capitalists , - sharers in all the profits and all the advantages which capital confers. Jevons , Social Reform, p. 119. capitalistic (kap"i-ta-lis'tik), a . + -ic.] Of or pertaining to capital or capitalists; representing or carried on by capital or capitalists; founded on or believing in capitalism: as, capitalistic production; capitalistic Medieval Capital. - Abbey of Vézelay, 13th century. (From Violletle-Duc's "Dict. de l'Architecture.") and as a member of transition between it and the entablature, or other portion of the structure above the pillar. In cla ical architecture the different orders have their respective appropriate capitals; but in the Egyptian, In [ capitalist He [La alle] tells the workingmen. that the great industrial centres are the germs of the future state, in which the capitalistic shall be superseded by the socialistic method of production. G. S. Hall, German Culture, p. 63. The characteristic feature of the capitalistic system of production is that industry is controlled by capitalists employing free wage-labour; that is, while the capitalist owns and controls the means of production, the free labourer has lost all ownership in land and capital and has nothing to depend on but his wage. Encyc. Brit ., XXII. 212.