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eedings had a strong tang of tyranny. Fuller. A cant of philosophism, and a tang of party politics. Jeffrey.

Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.

Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts. Lords temporal. See under Lord, n. -- Temporal augment. See the Note under Augment, n.

The practise of coercing governments to accede to political demands by committing violence on civilian targets; any similar use of violence to achieve goals.

nt of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God; hence, the exercise of political authority by priests as representing the Deity.

ositions are the very errors of human nature; and yet they are the fittest timber to make politics of. Bacon.

Venal; corrupt; jobbing; as, a trading politician.

One who does not adopt extreme opinions in politics, or the like; one who fluctuates between parties, so as to appear to favor each; a timeserver. Thus Halifax was a trimmer on principle. Macaulay.

o praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it. Shak. That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times . . . to be the trumpet of his praises. Dryden.

Impolitic; imprudent. [Obs.] Shak.

the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions. Bentham.

trinsic value. See Note under Value, 2. Value in use is utility, and nothing else, and in political economy should be called by that name and no other. F. A. Walker.

ented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called Utopia, as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics, laws, and the like. See Utopia, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks.

lied to a new task, or to various subjects; many-sided; as, versatile genius; a versatile politician. Conspicuous among the youths of high promise . . . was the quick and versatile [Charles] Montagu. Macaulay.

A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse. Withouten vice of syllable or letter. Chaucer. Mark the vice of the procedure. Sir W. Hamilton.

unconditionally destined to be paid out in wages. It was formerly held, by Mill and other political economists, that the average rate of wages in any country at any time depended upon the relation of the wages fund to the number of laborers. This theory has been greatly modified by the discovery of other conditions aff…

A room used by the citizens of a city ward, for meetings, political caucuses, elections, etc. [U.S.]

Not possessing or manifesting intellectual, logical, moral, or political strength, vigor, etc. Specifically: -

The body politic; the state; common wealth. [Obs.] The special watchmen of our English weal. Shak.