body politic

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noun Political Science.

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

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, polity

Examples from the Web for body politic

Contemporary Examples of body politic

It knocks away the dead skin and leaves the body-politic cleaner.
Why Partisan Bickering Works
Tunku Varadarajan
February 23, 2010

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 Electricity
James W. Steele
The newspapers tell me they're a blood-sucking trust battening on the body-politic, and so on.
Aliens
William McFee
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
And if we were to ask the question, "Upon what does their peculiar value to the body-politic depend?"
Preventable Diseases
Woods 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 Study
Jean-Marie Guyau

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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