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▪ I. ‖ polis, n.1 Hist.|ˈpɒlɪs|
[Gr.]
A Greek city-state; spec. such a state considered in its ideal form. Also transf.
1894A. Holm Hist. Greece I. xx. 252 In Greece state and city are one, and both are designated by the word ‘Polis’. 1929N. Mallinson tr. Glotz's Greek City 2 From the association of many villages, the complete State was created, the perfect community, the polis. 1941Auden New Year Letter iii. 51 We can at least serve other ends, Can love the polis of our friends. 1941H. G. Wells You can't be too Careful iv. i. 222 Homo Tewler does not behave as a political animal should do, participating with the utmost fullness in the collective life of his polis. Ibid. 223 The polis of Aristotle. 1958N. & Q. CCIII. 507/2 She appears an irreverent seductress pursuing Merlin in order to destroy the Arthurian polis. 1959Listener 12 Feb. 292/1 The fully developed, classical polis was a new and original institution. 1968Ibid. 5 Sept. 313/1 The epic and tragic were becoming increasingly hard to realise; an art that had emerged from the social organisation of the Greek polis no longer applied to the mysterious forces of capitalism. 1972A. P. Hinchliffe in Cox & Dyson 20th-Cent. Mind III. xiv. 416 The idea that no man can prosper unless his polis prospers. 1978A. Sanders Victorian Historical Novel viii. 172 The Florence of the novel [sc. Romola] is the Renaissance polis.
▪ II. polis, n.2 Chiefly Ir. and Sc.|ˈpɒlɪs, ˈpoːlɪs|
Also poliss, pollis.
[Repr. regional pronunc. of police n. (see etym. note).]
= police n. 5 a; a member or (construed as pl.) members of a police force. Also ˈpolisman.
c1874D. Boucicault Shaughraun (1884) i. iii. 7/2 The polis were in my cabin today about ye. 1892Kipling Barrack-Room Ballads 43 They sent the Polis there, The English were too drunk to know, the Irish didn't care. 1900E. H. Strain Elmslie's Drag-Net 115 The poliss is no far awa. 1904‘H. Foulis’ Erchie 124 Her niece Sarah, and Macrae the nicht polis. 1907J. M. Synge Playboy i. 10 Is it yourself is fearing the polis? You're wanting, maybe? 1919J. Buchan Mr Standfast iv. 84 Ye'll get a good turn-out at your meeting..but they're sayin' that the polis will interfere. 1922Joyce Ulysses 434 Don't be all night before the polis in plain clothes sees us. 1928J. Buchan Runagates Club ii. 73 The pollisman..says they're looking for a man that personated an inmate. a1930N. Munro Para Handy Tales (1955) 109 ‘There's no a polisman in the island of Barra,’ said Para Handy. ‘If there wass any need for polismen they would have to send to Lochmaddy.’ 1931D. L. Sayers Five Red Herrings ii. 20 Juist tummled intae the burn..an' drooned himself... The pollis'll be up there now. 1967H. Calvin Nice Friendly Town viii. 104 ‘But I'll have to get on to the police,’ I protested, and Jumbo..pointed to Eddie Bone and said: ‘He's a polis. Get on to him.’ 1973J. Patrick Glasgow Gang Observed iii. 34 Tim bragged: ‘We've chibbed aboot seven polis.’ 1979Listener 31 May 749/4 The odd poliss and such like..could be confusing to English ears. |