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The supposed principles of Machiavel, or practice in conformity to them; political artifice, intended to favor arbitrary power.

A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends. [Political Cant]

ble desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform. It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. Jer. 1. 88. And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities. Acts xxvi. 11.

A secret society which organized in Sicily as a political organization, but is now widespread among Italians, and is used to further or protect private interests, reputedly by illegal methods.

Of or pertaining to the political economist, the Rev. T. R. Malthus, or conforming to his views; as, Malthusian theories.

Artful management; as, the manipulation of political bodies; sometimes, a management or treatment for purposes of deception or fraud.

ous show; disguise. That masquerade of misrepresentation which invariably accompanied the political eloquence of Rome. De Quincey.

se or policy; a means to an end; an act designed for the accomplishment of an object; as, political measures; prudent measures; an inefficient measure. His majesty found what wrong measures he had taken in the conferring that trust, and lamented his error. Clarendon.

conservative in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss. [Political Slang, U.S.]

A bolter from the Republican party in the national election of 1884; an Independent. [Political Cant, U.S.]

The acts and views of the mugwumps. [Political Cant, U.S.]

A race or people, as determined by common language and character, and not by political bias or divisions; a nation. the fulfillment of his mission is to be looked for in the condition of nationalities and the character of peoples. H. W. Beecher.

a secret association (esp. in Russia), which is devoted to the destruction of the present political, religious, and social institutions.

A province or political division, as of modern Greece or ancient Egypt; a nomarchy.

In modern diplomacy, opportunity for political and commercial intercourse open to all upon equal terms, esp. with reference to a nation whose policy is wholly or partially fixed by nations foreign to itself, or to territory newly acquired by a conquering nation. In this sense, often used adjectively, as, open-door syst…

o be; to bring into existence; to produce as new. A decomposition of the whole civill and political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order. Burke.

To banish from society; to put under the ban; to cast out from social, political, or private favor; as, he was ostracized by his former friends. Marvell.

A setting out, starting, or beginning. "The outset of a political journey." Burke. Giving a proper direction to this outset of life. J. Hawes.

To outlive. Sir P. Sidney. The culture of Northumbria overlived the term of its political supermacy. Earle.

The principle or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the states of America.