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† weal-public Obs.
Also pl. 6–7 weale publiques.
[weal n.1 + public a. 2 a, after F. le bien publique and L. bonum publicum.]
1. The general good of the community; public welfare or interest. Hence, the state or body politic.
1495Act 11 Hen. VII c. 34 Preamble, The reformacion of the weale publique..in the seid parties of Southwales. 1540–1Elyot Image Gov. 16 b, The sondry dignities and offices in the weale publik were aptly distributed. a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. iv. ⁋2 Therefore, the weale-publicke was more to be regarded, then any person or magistrate that therevnto was ordeined. 1602F. Herring Anatomyes 19 The Weale-publike Prudently and Religiously prouided for. 1641Milton Reform. ii. 46 What is all this either here, or there to the temporal regiment of Wealpublick, whether it be Popular, Princely, or Monarchical? 1671F. Philipps Reg. Necess. 338 Private mens Actions and Suits must be suspended for a convenient time, where it is pro bono publico, the Weal-publick. 1710Steele & Addison Tatler No. 253 ⁋6 The Advantages that may arise to the Weal-Publick from this Institution. 1731Peyton Divine Catastrophe Ho. Stuarts 62 To..keep and defend the Weal-publick in Health and Prosperity.
2. A state, community, or commonwealth.
1540–1Elyot Image Gov. 83 b, Truely god gyueth wysedome, but fauour and aucthoritie mooste chiefely sheweth it in a weale publyke. 1551Robinson tr. More's Utopia i. (1895) 30 They found townys and cytyes, and weale publyques, full of people, gouerned by good and holsom lawes. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God i. xxix. 45 When Carthage was raized downe, and the greatest curber and terror of the Romaine weale-publike vtterly extinguished and brought to nothing. 1622E. Misselden Free Trade 33 This is our case in this Weale-publike; no Kingdome hath better Lawes. 1627Hakewill Apol. (1630) 107 Whatsoever the force of the starres be, upon the persons of private men, or the states of weale-publiques. |