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or to test, establish, or illustrate some suggest or known truth; practical test; poof. A political experiment can not be made in a laboratory, not determinant in a few hours. J. Adams.

A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good…

person who has been constituted a voter by being made a landholder, for party purposes. [Political cant, Eng.]

ashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation. H. Spencer.

d of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington.

To unite in compact, as different States; to confederate for political purposes; to unite by or under the Federal Constitution. Barlow.

To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices. [political cant or slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

stered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty.

A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party.

Kingsley. To funk out, to back out in a cowardly fashion. [Colloq.] To funk right out o' political strife. Lowell (Biglow Papers).

tion of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its structure, fetures, products, political divisions, and the people by whom it is inhabited.

for the choice of representatives, in an unnatural and unfair way, with a view to give a political party an advantage over its opponent. [Political Cant, U. S.]

e Marxian socialism and programme of reform through revolution as advocated by the French political leader Jules Basile Guesde (pron. ged) (1845- ). -- Guesd"ist (#), n. & a.

Any system of religious doctrine; sometimes, any system of political doctrine or social philosophy; as, this political gospel. Burke.

bedience of law, or from morally wrong action; teh state of one who has broken a moral or political law; crime; criminality; offense against right. Satan had not answer, but stood struck With guilt of his own sin. Milton.

of another, often unscrupulously, by slander or other malicious communication, often with political motive, and sometimes for pay.

A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron. [Political Cant, U. S.] The army of hungry heelers who do their bidding. The Century.

An attendant; a servant; a follower. Now chiefly used as a political cant term.

Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; -- opposed to autonomy.

of the Democratic party in New York; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fogy. [Political Cant, U.S.]