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metapolitical, a.|ˌmɛtəpəˈlɪtɪkəl|
[See meta- 1. Cf. G. metapolitisch (Stein, 1817).]
1. Lying outside the sphere of politics.
1647M. Hudson Div. Right Govt. ii. x. 156 The limitation of the Kings power, in order to Evangelicall duties, which are extra-regalia, and Metapoliticall matters. 1937J. M. Murry Necessity of Pacifism ii. 38 The deep-seated social urge towards life becomes necessarily anti-political in its manifestation. Perhaps meta-political would be a better word. It points and thrusts beyond politics.
2. Relating to metapolitics; given to the study of metapolitics.
1809–10Coleridge Friend (1818) II. 82 The metaphysical (or as I have proposed to call them, metapolitical) reasonings hitherto discussed, belong to Government in the abstract. 1878Seeley Stein III. 391 Fries, as Professor, taught a new political creed founded on the philosophy of Kant. Stein was assuredly not wrong in calling the new school metapolitical. 1889Campion in Lux Mundi xi. 461 If man is ‘metaphysical nolens volens’, it is equally true that he is metapolitical, to use Martensen's happy word, nolens volens. |