3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Politic \Pol`i*tic\, n.
A politician. [Archaic] --Bacon.
Swiftly the politic goes; is it dark? he borrows a
lantern; Slowly the statesman and sure guiding his
feet by the stars. --Lowell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Politic \Pol"i*tic\, a. [L. politicus political, Gr ? belonging
to the citizens or to the state, fr.? citizen: cf F.
politique See {Police}, and cf {ePolitical}.]
1. Of or pertaining to polity, or civil government;
political; as the body politic. See under {Body}.
He with his people made all but one politic body.
--Sir P.
Sidney.
2. Pertaining to or promoting, a policy, especially a
national policy; well-devised; adapted to its end whether
right or wrong -- said of things as a politic treaty.
``Enrich'd with politic grave counsel.'' --Shak.
3. Sagacious in promoting a policy; ingenious in devising and
advancing a system of management; devoted to a scheme or
system rather than to a principle; hence in a good sense
wise; prudent; sagacious; and in a bad sense artful;
unscrupulous; cunning; -- said of persons.
Politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.
--Shak.
Syn: Wise; prudent; sagacious; discreet; provident; wary;
artful; cunning.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
politic
adj 1: marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness; "it
is neither polite nor politic to get into other
people's quarrels"; "a politic decision"; "a politic
manager"; "a politic old scoundrel"; "a shrewd and
politic reply" [ant: {impolitic}]
2: smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of
sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so
important a personage"; "the hostess averted a
confrontation between two guests with a diplomatic change
of subject"; "the manager pacified the customer with a
smooth apology for the error"; "affable, suave, moderate
men...smugly convinced of their respectability" Ezra
Pound [syn: {smooth}, {suave}]
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