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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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"Political" Quotes from Famous Books

... order that the woman might mix and mingle in Washington society for a brief minute or two, he got himself elected to fill out an unexpired term of two months in the United States Senate—bought the election, some said. That was three years ago, wasn't it?—a long time, as political incidents or accidents go. But Washington hasn't forgotten. When I was down there last winter the five-o'clock-tea people were still recalling Mrs. Blount's gowns and the wild-Western naivete of ...

— The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde

... from passing friends hardly checked him, and he strode deliberately onward to the office of the Hills County Eagle, the daily, owned and edited by Amos Strong—a long ago friend, although for twice a score of years his most unrelenting political foe. There had been a time when the town prophesied a "meeting" between these two, but their enmity had finally congealed into nothing more deadly than ...

— Where the Souls of Men are Calling • Credo Harris

... is laid in the mining centers of Montana, where politics and mining industries are the religion of the country. The political contest, the love scene, and the fine character drawing give this story great ...

— Nan of Music Mountain • Frank H. Spearman

... territory is to furnish homes for white men, this measure effects that object, for the emigration of colored men leaves additional room for white men remaining or coming here. Mr. Jefferson, however, placed the importance of procuring Louisiana more on political and commercial grounds than ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... good, doubtless, in your place, where all things are good." What the early settlers of Massachusetts did intend, and what they accomplished, was the founding here of a new England, and a better one, where the political superstitions and abuses of the old should never have leave to take root. So much, we may say, they deliberately intended. No nobles, either lay or cleric, no great landed estates, and no universal ignorance ...

— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell

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