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a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 112 (MED) The felowshippe that came in to this lande with Brute, willynge to be vnite and made a body pollitike callid a reawme, hauynge an hed to gouerne it, [etc.].]

c1537 King Henry VIII Let. 24 Jan. in Camden Misc. (1992) XXXI. 62 Resemblinge the politique body of a common wealth to the naturall body of a man.

1604 King James VI & I Counterblaste to Tobacco sig. A3^v It is the Kings part (as the proper Phisician of his Politicke-body) to purge it of all those diseases, by Medicines meete for the same.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 63 As there are Mountebanques for the Naturall Body: So are there Mountebanques for the Politique Body.

1666 Duchess of Newcastle Descr. New World 16 As it was natural for one body to have but one Head, so it was natural for a Politick Body to have but one Governor.

1750 R. Poole Journey from London to France & Holland II. 150/1 That Politick Body [sc. Holland] was so totter'd and torn, as did threaten its utter and total Ruin.

1850 Times 14 Sept. 3/4 That healing power which counteracts the influence of defects in the politic body, like the vis medicatrix in the natural body.

1968 Monumenta Nipponica 23 157 The whole politic-body of Japan was being racked by increasing dissensions.

1999 M. Loughlin in S. Payne & M. Sunkin Nature of Crown iii. 59 Notwithstanding the idea that the King's politic body never dies, it was left to Acts of Parliament to try to resolve the difficulties that arose on the actual death of the Monarch.