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Definition: Body Politic |
Body PoliticNoun1. A politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Body Politic (A). A whole nation considered as a political corporation; the state. In Latin, totum corpus reipublicae. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: Body PoliticSynonyms: commonwealth (n), country (n), land (n), nation (n), res publica (n), state (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Government | State, realm, body politic, posse comitatus. |
Mankind | People, persons, folk, public, society, world; community, community at large; general public; nation, nationality; state, realm; commonweal, commonwealth; republic, body politic; million. (commonalty); population. (inhabitant). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Body Politic |
| English words defined with "body politic": Anticivism ♦ estate, estate of the realm. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "body politic": Anticivism. (references) |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The Body Politic on the March of Intellect, : To the Tune of Let us all be unhappy together. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Jean Jacques Rousseau | The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction. |
Thomas Jefferson | The mobs of the great cities . . . sores on the body politic. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | When any number of men have so consented to make one community or government, they are thereby presently incorporated, and make one body politic, wherein the majority have a right to act and conclude the rest. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Where community exists, there likewise exists the true body politic, and where the latter is, there too is justice. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | In the new legislation there has been a shift in emphasis by placing the fate of the environment in the body politic, which now has the opportunity to act proactively. (references) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
body politic | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "body politic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | corps politique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Staatskörper. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | népközösség, állam (realm, state). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 国" (political situation, statecraft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "くせい (political situation, statecraft, stateof a country). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | stait. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | odybay oliticpay statul. (various references) devlet kurumu. (various references) nh nước. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-i-i-l-o-o-p-t-y" | |
-3 letters: biolytic, biotypic, cotyloid, docility, politico. | |
-4 letters: bioptic, copilot, dicotyl, diploic, lycopod, oolitic, poditic, politic, polycot, potboil. | |
-5 letters: biopic, biotic, bloody, bodily, colobi, coplot, diobol, idiocy, libido, lipoid, octopi, opioid, ploidy, policy, polity, potboy, tidily. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-d-i-i-l-o-o-p-t-y" | |
+4 letters: decomposability. | |
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