Po-litʹi-cal, a.
a. 1. Furnished with fixed or regular system or administration of government. [Rare.]
This beautiful city is more stained with such horrid acts of revenge and murders than any one place in Europe, . . . or haply in the world, where there is a political government. Evelyn.
Sense 2. Pertaining to public policy or politics; relating to state affairs; concerned in national measures; especially, pertaining to a state, in distinction from a city or municipality; as, a political writer.
Speaking of the political state of Europe, we are accustomed to say of Sweden, she lost her liberty by the revolution. Paley.
Sense 3. Derived from office or connection with government; public; as, political character.
Sense 4. Politic; wise; prudent; sagacious; hence, artful; cunning. [Obs.]
As the doctor had heard nothing since, it was natural, and very political, too, in him to have a ride to Shandy Hall, as he did, merely to see how matters went on. Sterne.
Political arithmetic, the application of figures to a discussion of the resources and progress of a nation; the art of reasoning from statistics.—Political economy, that branch of philosophy which discusses the sources and methods of material wealth and prosperity in a nation.—Political geography, that species of geography, or that department of geography, which treats of the different countries on the globe, or the different nations into which mankind are divided, and describes their political institutions, and their moral and social condition.