body politic
noun Political Science.
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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Examples 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
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