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Craft or skill in policy on the part of a queen. Elizabeth showed much queencraft in procuring the votes of the nobility. Fuller.

The act of reconcentrating or the state of being reconcentrated; esp., the act or policy of concentrating the rural population in or about towns and villages for convenience in political or military administration, as in Cuba during the revolution of 1895-98.

Reconstructing; tending to reconstruct; as, a reconstructive policy.

The principles and policy of the Republican party, so called [U.S.]

ions; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture. He knew that policy would desincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family. E. Everett.

One who, not being a Russian, favors Russian policy and aggrandizement. -- Rus*soph"ilism, n. [Chiefly newspaper words.]

or pert. to a lot or piece of sandy ground, -- hence, pert. to, or characteristic of, the policy or practices of the socialistic or communistic followers of the Irish agitator Denis Kearney, who delivered many of his speeches in the open sand lots about San Francisco; as, the sand-lot constitution of California, framed…

The doctrine or policy of secession; the tenets of secession; the tenets of secessionists.

d from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element.

Sterne. I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this state [Virginia] could see the policy of a gradual abolition of slavery. It might prevent much future mischief. Washington.

There is no art that hath more . . . slubbered with aphorisming pedantry than the art of policy. Milton.

emand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service.

One occupied with the affairs of government, and influental in shaping its policy.

The art of governing a state; statecraft; policy. [Obs.] The enemies of God . . . call our religion statism. South.

on; to strengthen authority. Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest, . . . With powerful policy strengthen themselves. Shak.

ished by such an effort; as, a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy.

g Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy. Glanvill.

More than politic; above or exceeding policy. Milton.

by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine. Not tied to rules of policy, you find Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind. Dryden.

knit, or fasten two things together; to mix things together. The king joined humanity and policy together. Bacon.