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isopolity Chiefly Anc. Hist.|aɪsəʊˈpɒlɪtɪ|
[ad. Gr. ἰσοπολῑτεία, f. ἰσοπολίτης a citizen with equal or reciprocal right, f. ἰσο- + πολίτης citizen.]
Equality of rights of citizenship between different communities or states; reciprocity of civic rights.
1836C. F. Hermann Pol. Antiq. Gr. 229 It is not known that Athens was ever on terms of perfect Isopolity with any other State. 1849Kemble Saxons Eng. ii. vii. II. 270 The period of the Social, Marsic or Italian war, when the cities of Italy wrested isopolity, or at least isotely, from Rome. 1853Clough Let. to C. E. Norton 21 Sept., Between America and England..one would be glad if there could exist some isopolity. 1897A. V. Dicey in Contemp. Rev. Apr. 461 Community of citizenship would affect not civil, but political rights. If the Acts creating isopolity were passed, a citizen of the United States would stand, when in England, in the same position as an English colonist.
b. transf. Equality of rights or privileges (of any kind).
1862S. Lucas Secularia 26 The Church..exemplifying in her own ‘dignified isopolity’ the equality of all men in the sight of God. 1879Farrar St. Paul viii. (1893) 80 The Crucifixion had, in fact, been the protest of the Jew against an isopolity of faith.
So isopolite |aɪˈsɒpəlaɪt| [Gr. ἰσοπολίτης (see above)] n. and a.; isopolitical |aɪsəʊpəʊˈlɪtɪkəl|, a., of or relating to isopolity; involving mutual rights of citizenship.
1842–5W. Smith's Dict. Gr. & Rom. Antiq. s.v. Civitas, The isopolite relation. 1871W. Smith's Smaller Dict. of Antiq. (ed. 8) 173/1 If he withdrew to a state between which and Rome isopolitical relations existed, he would become a citizen of that state. |