politic

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An instantaneous change of the whole body-politic, the soul-politic being all changed; such a change as few bodies, politic or other, can experience in this world.

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  1. adjective Using or marked by prudence, expedience, and shrewdness; artful.
  2. adjective Using, displaying, or proceeding from policy; judicious: a politic decision.
  3. adjective Crafty; cunning.

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  • But having this alien strain of Republicon bacteria infecting our body politic, and poisoning our democratic discourse really is the limit. —  Montreal Simon
  • It is not politic, absolute humanity aids for cyclone vitims.
  • His clear agrarianism (not as a politic, per se, but rather a vision of a beautifully ordered form of life) and his sense of loss in seeing this agrarian life being dismissed and discarded contrasts him with a Dostoevsky for whom the interior battle is seemingly the only truly important aspect of the narrative. —  The Ochlophobist
  • The position of African Americans in the body politic has been at the center of America's promise and peril since our very beginning as a people. —  South Dakota Politics
  • Slide 8: The Next Step Try different keywords Truncate (*): politic* —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
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  1. Middle English politik, from Old French politique, from Latin polīticus, political, from Greek polītikos, from polītēs, citizen, from polis, city; see pelə-3 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. I. a. Formerly also politick, politique; from French politique = Spanish politico = Portuguese Italian politico (cf. D. G. politisch = Swedish Danish politisk), from Latin politicus, from Greek πολιτικός, of or pertaining to citizens or the state, civic, civil. from πολίτης, a citizen, from πόλις, a city: see police, policy, polity. II. n. from French politique = Spanish politico = Portuguese Italian politico, from Middle Latin politicus, masculine, from Greek πολιτικός, a politician, statesman; from the adjective As an abstract noun (in English in pL. politics), French politique = Spanish política = Portuguese Italian politica = Dutch politiek = G. Swedish Danish politik, from Latin politica, from Greek πολιτική, the science of politics, neuter plural πολιτικά, political affairs, politics; feminine, or neuter plural of πολιτικός, adjective, pertaining to the state: see above.
 

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