Politic

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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}.
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              He with his people made all but one politic body.
                                                    --Sir P.
                                                    Sidney.
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     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.
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     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.
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              Politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.
                                                    --Shak.
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     Syn: Wise; prudent; sagacious; discreet; provident; wary;
          artful; cunning.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Politic \Pol`i*tic\, n.
     A politician. [Archaic] --Bacon.
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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.                                   --Lowell.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  192 Moby Thesaurus words for "politic":
     Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adept, adroit,
     advantageous, advisable, appropriate, apt, arch, artful, artistic,
     astute, authoritative, becoming, befitting, bravura, brilliant,
     cagey, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, civic, clean, clever,
     congruous, considerate, convenient, coordinated, crack,
     crackerjack, crafty, cunning, cute, daedal, deceitful, decent,
     deep, deep-laid, deft, deliberate, delicate, designing, desirable,
     dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, discreet, discriminating,
     discriminative, enlightened, evasive, excellent, expedient, expert,
     fancy, favorable, feasible, felicitous, feline, fit, fitten,
     fitting, foxy, fructuous, geopolitical, gingerly, good, goodish,
     governmental, graceful, guarded, guileful, handy, happy, heedful,
     hesitant, ingenious, insidious, intelligent, inventive, judgmatic,
     judicial, judicious, knowing, leaving out nothing, likely,
     magisterial, masterful, masterly, meet, mindful, neat, no mean,
     noncommittal, on guard, opportune, overlooking no possibility,
     pawky, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, political,
     politico-commercial, politico-diplomatic, politico-economic,
     politico-geographical, politico-judicial, politico-military,
     politico-moral, politico-religious, politico-scientific,
     politico-social, politico-theological, professional, proficient,
     profitable, proper, provident, prudent, prudential, quick,
     quite some, ready, recommendable, reflecting, reflective,
     regardful, resourceful, right, safe, sagacious, sage, scheming,
     seasonable, seemly, sensible, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd,
     skillful, slick, slippery, slow to act, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky,
     some, sophistical, sortable, statesmanlike, stealthy, strategic,
     stylish, subtile, subtle, suffragist, suitable, supple, tactful,
     tactical, tentative, the compleat, the complete, thorough,
     thoughtful, timely, to be desired, trickish, tricksy, tricky,
     unadventurous, uncommunicative, undaring, unenterprising,
     unprecipitate, useful, virtuoso, vulpine, wary, well-advised,
     well-done, well-judged, well-timed, wily, wise, workmanlike,
     worthwhile