body politic
- a people regarded as a political body under an organized government.
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Origin of body politic
1425–75; late Middle English bodi politik
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Related Words for body politic
commonwealth, constituency, country, electorate, land, nation, state, polityExamples from the Web for body politic
Contemporary Examples of body politic
It knocks away the dead skin and leaves the body-politic cleaner.
Historical Examples of body politic
But there is a new commandment added to the list of those to be memorized by the body-politic.
Steam Steel and ElectricityJames W. Steele
The newspapers tell me they're a blood-sucking trust battening on the body-politic, and so on.
AliensWilliam McFee
It would be the thrusting of a probe deep into the tenderest and sorest parts of the Confederate body-politic.
And if we were to ask the question, "Upon what does their peculiar value to the body-politic depend?"
Preventable DiseasesWoods Hutchinson
They form as constant a drain on the body-politic as the victims of the Inquisition formed during so many years in Spain.
The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological StudyJean-Marie Guyau
body politic
- the body politic the people of a nation or the nation itself considered as a political entity; the state
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