Noun: politic
| Singular | politic |
| Plural | politics |
Sample Sentences
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to speake truly of politikes & Statesmen [1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:]
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Swiftly the politic goes; is it dark? he borrows a lantern; / Slowly the statesman and sure, guiding his feet by the stars. [1848, James Russell Lowell, The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell, Epigrams, 3:]
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And therefore our politic Asclepius may be supposed to have exhibited the power of his art only to persons who... had a definite ailment. [1871, Benjamin Jowett, chapter III, in Plato: The Republic:]
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While the stories and lives on the screen are alternately moving and funny, an unspoken question arises: does similar experience always lead to a coherent politic? [1978 April 29, Michael Bronski, “Notes on a Necessary Gay Film”, in Gay Community News, page 11:]
Nouns inflected like politic
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle French politique, from Latin politicus, from Ancient Greek πολιτικός (politikós), from πολίτης (polítēs, “citizen”). Cognate with German politisch (“political”). Doublet of politico. See: Latin Nouns '
politicus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
πολιτικός'.