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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Policy \Pol"i*cy\, n.; pl {Policies}. [L. politia, Gr ?; cf
F. police, Of police. See {Police}, n.]
1. Civil polity. [Obs.]
2. The settled method by which the government and affairs of
a nation are or may be administered; a system of public
or official administration, as designed to promote the
external or internal prosperity of a state.
3. The method by which any institution is administered;
system of management; course.
4. Management or administration based on temporal or material
interest, rather than on principles of equity or honor;
hence worldly wisdom; dexterity of management; cunning;
stratagem.
5. Prudence or wisdom in the management of public and private
affairs; wisdom; sagacity; wit.
The very policy of a hostess, finding his purse so
far above his clothes, did detect him --Fuller.
6. Motive; object; inducement. [Obs.]
What policy have you to bestow a benefit where it is
counted an injury? --Sir P.
Sidney.
Syn: See {Polity}.
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