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Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration. [R.] "A political government." Evelyn.

Zeal or party spirit in politics.

In a political manner.

Having the character of a cosmopolite. [R.] Hackluyt.

Impolitic. [Obs.] -- Im`po*lit"i*cal*ly, adv. [Obs.] Bacon.

Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall.

rs affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.

d notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.

One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators.

the confederated states of ancient Greece to a congress or council. They considered both political and religious matters.

Pertaining to anarchy; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.

ent; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion. Spread anarchy and terror all around. Cowper.

ographical distribution and environment. Broadly, it includes industrial, commercial, and political geography, and that part of ethnology which deals with distribution and physical environment. -- An`thro*po*ge*og"ra*pher (#), n. -- An`thro*po*ge`o*graph"ic*al (#), a.

A book containing the principles of this science. Arithmetic of sines, trigonometry. -- Political arithmetic, the application of the science of numbers to problems in civil government, political economy, and social science. -- Universal arithmetic, the name given by Sir Isaac Newton to algebra.

A collection of individuals, or of individuals, or of particular things; as, a political assemblage; an assemblage of ideas.

rot. In Germany, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Herder were representative thinkers, while the political doctrines of the leaders of the American Revolution and the speculations of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine represented the movement in America.

Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy. Barlow.

The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.

science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy.

crilege or other crimes. Ban of the empire (German Hist.), an imperial interdict by which political rights and privileges, as those of a prince, city, or district, were taken away.