Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Using or marked by prudence, expedience, and shrewdness; artful.
- adj. Using, displaying, or proceeding from policy; judicious: a politic decision.
- adj. Crafty; cunning.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to politics, or the science of government; having to do with politics.
- Of or pertaining to civil as distinguished from religious or military affairs; civil; political.
- Hence Of or pertaining to officers of state; official; state.
- That constitutes the state; consisting of citizens: as, the body politic (that is, the whole body of the people as constituting a state).
- Existing by and for the state; popular; constitutional.
- In keeping with policy; wise; prudent; fit; proper; expedient: applied to actions, measures, etc.
- Characterized by worldly wisdom or craftiness; subtle; crafty; scheming; cunning; artful: applied to persons or their devices: as, a politic prince.
- n. A politician.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to polity, or civil government; political. See under body.
- adj. Pertaining to, or promoting, a policy, especially a national policy; well-devised; adapted to its end, whether right or wrong; -- said of things.
- adj. Sagacious in promoting a policy; ingenious in devising and advancing a system of management; devoted to a scheme or system rather than to a principle; hence, in a good sense, wise; prudent; sagacious; and in a bad sense, artful; unscrupulous; cunning; -- said of persons.
- n. A politician.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness
- adj. smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
Etymologies
- 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.
Examples
“Palin, if you wanted to stay in politic you should have stayed as Governor of Alaska, but you decided to sell a book you did not write, so who do you think want to hear any thing you have to say.”
“The body politic is frozen, incapable of making either bold advancements forward or retrenching, and then reverting back to simpler time.”
Matthew Yglesias » Olivier Blanchard on the Case for Higher Inflation
“That such a populace of deluded hypocrits are allowed to take part in our "body politic" is a testament to the LIBERAL nature of our constitution.”
“One thing you cannot denied in politic a liberal can speak on any subject on a momentt notice.”
“Sad day in American politic, not because someone is criticizing Obama, but because we are reminded that political partys can do very little beyond criticizing each other.”
NRCC targets Obama for saying Cambridge cop 'acted stupidly'
“Trying to escape both a trial schedule on november 2008 for the biggest raud in politic ..”
“Peter Paul vs Clinton the biggest fraud in politic, and now what she claim that the media are not reporting 'sexsim' Please go away it's still time ... george”
“If they are involved in politic and they have to pay tax.”
“I know religion can not be made an issue in politic in our country but, I think it plays an important role in the selection as to who is going to be the next president of America.”
“Hey McCain, you are not in a position to call anyone a lier ... ur whole politic is based on lies ...”
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