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/pəlˈɪtəkəl/ /pəlˈɪtɪkəl/ Listen

adjective

Political adj.

Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration. (R.) "A political government."

Of or pertaining to public policy, or to politics; relating to affairs of state or administration; as, a political writer. "The political state of Europe."

Of or pertaining to a party, or to parties, in the state; as, his political relations were with the Whigs.

Politic; wise; also, artful. (Obs.)

Political economy, that branch of political science or philosophy which treats of the sources, and methods of production and preservation, of the material wealth and prosperity of nations.

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Etymology of 'Political'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Political" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the House of Commons, in a motion of Mr. Perceval, on 14th February 1831. This was to move an address to His Majesty to appoint a day for a general fast throughout the United Kingdom. He said that "the state of the country called for a measure like this—that it was a state of political and religious disorganization—that the elements of the Constitution were being hourly loosened—that in this land there was no attachment, no control, no humility of spirit, no mutual confidence between the poor man and the rich, the employer and the employed; but fear and ...

— A Shepherd's Life • W. H. Hudson

... Burnside a few hours later. The Governor of Rhode Island, at the general's request, sent him a commission as second lieutenant. This case is unique. Nothing but the stout heart of Sergeant Gray made him a commissioned officer. He owed his promotion to no political or personal influence with the Governor ...

— Campaign of Battery D, First Rhode Island light artillery. • Ezra Knight Parker

... popular in the middle ages that it was translated by Caxton into English. Still better evidence is the translation made for the king by the same poet of Boethius, whose stoical philosophy must have had a special appropriateness for those times of political storm and stress, when the fickleness of fortune must have been a matter of only too common repute. Guido Colonna was elected by his admiring brethren the general of the order in 1292, and took up his residence ...

— Game and Playe of the Chesse - A Verbatim Reprint Of The First Edition, 1474 • Caxton

... with a mass of acquired information which would have made some of our blue-books read like Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. He had made up his mind exactly what he thought of each country, of their political systems, of their social life, of their military importance. He had them all weighed up in the hollow of his hand. He was willing to talk as long as I, for instance, was willing to listen. He spoke of everybody whom he had met and every place which he had visited without ...

— The Illustrious Prince • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... unconsciously wound, and the manliness of instant recognition of the error. Swayed by an occasion, or by the responsiveness of an audience, Mr. Beecher would sometimes say something which was not meant as it sounded. One evening, at a great political meeting at Cooper Union, Mr. Beecher was at his brightest and wittiest. In the course of his remarks he had occasion to refer to ex-President Hayes; some one in the audience called out: "He was ...

— The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward William Bok (1863-1930)

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