body politic

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noun Political Science.

a people regarded as a political body under an organized government.

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body of christ, body of stomach, body packer, body piercing, body plan, body politic, body press, body rhythm, body rub, body search, body shield

Origin of body politic

1425–75; late Middle English bodi politik

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It knocks away the dead skin and leaves the body-politic cleaner.
Why Partisan Bickering Works|Tunku Varadarajan|February 23, 2010|DAILY BEAST
And if we were to ask the question, "Upon what does their peculiar value to the body-politic depend?"
Preventable Diseases|Woods Hutchinson
In the person of the Turkish Knight I could embody that howling chaos which does duty among us for a body-politic.
A Christmas Garland|Max Beerbohm
But there is a new commandment added to the list of those to be memorized by the body-politic.
Steam Steel and Electricity|James W. Steele

Militarism is a cancer on the German body-politic, just as slavery was once a cancer fastened on the fair body of the great South.
The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon|Newell Dwight Hillis
It would be the thrusting of a probe deep into the tenderest and sorest parts of the Confederate body-politic.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864|Various

British Dictionary definitions for body politic

body politic

noun

the body politic the people of a nation or the nation itself considered as a political entity; the state

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body politic

noun Political Science.

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body politic

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