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Politic
POL'ITIC, a. [L. politicus; Gr. a city.]
1. Wise; prudent and sagacious in devising and pursuing measures adapted to promote the public welfare; applied to persons; as a politic prince.
2. Well devised and adapted to the public prosperity; applied to things.
This land was famously enriched
With politic grave counsel.
3. Ingenious in devising and pursuing any scheme of personal or national aggrandizement, without regard to the morality of the measure; cunning; artful; sagacious in adapting means to the end, whether good or evil.
I have been politic with my friend, smooth with my enemy.
4. Well devised; adapted to its end, right or wrong.
politic appears in definitions for these words:
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Administrator Advance Affair Aggrieve Aggrieved Agitate Anarchy Ancient Apostate Archpolitician Body Can Capacity Cast Cheap Chew Chistianity Circle Cockade College Commit Commonweal Community Compact Congress Convention Convert Convulsion Corporation Creed Dabbler Dark Deal Disease Disentangle Distemper Distraction Dreamer Economy Emblem Enfranchisement Estate Evil Experiment Faction Famously Federalist Fixedness Freedom Government Guilt Heresy Hieroglyph High-principled History Incorporate Incorporated Incorporating Incorporation Inflammation Insurgent Insurrection Lacerate Lengthy Liberty Machiavelian Machiavelism Martyr Measure Member Might Municipal Obey Obligation Office Opinion Originate Party Person Politic Political Politicaster Politician Politics Politize Power Powerful Precedence Private Privilege Propagandist Proscription Pull Pump Puritan Quiet Reformist Refugee Revolution Revolutionize Right Rota Seasoning Secular Solecism Spare Speculate Squeamishness Stanch State State-monger Statesman Station Statist Statistics Storm Synomosy Teem Tempest Temporal Timber Time Trumpet Turbulence Vassal Vassalage Vice Weak Wealsman Whig Wholesomeness Worthy
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