politicaladj.n.

1577 J. Dee Gen. Mem. Arte Nauig. 23 Three most lawfull Brytish Childern, and long wished for, of the true, Brytish, and Christian Druides, they being also, Politicall Philosophers, and not Sophisticate.

1580 Breif Descr. Well of Woman Hil sig. A2 The Inhabitantis thairof maist ciuile, honest, and politicall.

1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 102 As politicall a stratagemitor as I thinke hath bene in any age.

1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre iii. v. 41 in Wks. II I Cannot beget a Proiect, with all my politicall braine, yet.

1654 tr. M. Martini Bellum Tartaricum 106 And sometimes suggested dangerous, but political Counsels to the Tartars.

1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. x. 66 'Twas natural and very political too in him, to have taken a ride to Shandy-Hall.

1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 19 From two to three hundred acres..is the most political Farm.

1810 J. S. Knowles Coll. Poems 37 (note) He [sc. a Doctor] is industrious, but not political in devising mischief.

a1817 in J. Mill Brit. India (1818) II. v. i. 334 Whether it would be political to interfere, or whether..it would be expedient, must continue a doubt with us.

1623 J. Webster Dutchesse of Malfy i. ii. sig. B3^v He strewes in his way Flatters, Panders, Intelligencers, Athiests, and a thousand such politicall Monsters.

1730 J. Swift Vindic. Ld. C—— 15 Nothing can better improve political School-boys, than the Art of making plausible or implausible Harangues, against the very Opinion for which they resolve to Determine.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. ii. 234 The great State Wheels in all the political Machines of Europe. View more context for this quotation

a1797 E. Burke Thoughts on Scarcity (1800) 3 Nothing can be so base and so wicked as the political canting language, ‘The Labouring Poor’.

1803 J. Mackintosh in Trial J. Peltier 171 The horrible consequences of enforcing rigorously principles of law..against political writers.

1846 T. Wright Ess. Middle Ages II. xix. 259 The oldest English political song preserved relates to the battle of Lewes in 1264.

1874 A. Trollope Phineas Redux I. xxxviii. 320 Ministers used to think of their political friends; but in these days they only regard their political enemies.

1929 J. Reith Diary 14 Feb. (1975) i. 100 Ramsay MacDonald..wanted to talk about political broadcasting, the Labour party being so dependent on the wireless.

1974 G. Woodbridge in H. van Thal Prime Ministers I. 349 He [sc. Lord Grey] concluded with a highly political and very clever speech.

1977 Times 27 Jan. 5/1 Ill-considered and largely political legislation aimed at achieving a union takeover of private industry.

2004 Times (Nexis) 27 Oct. (Sport) 78 Gary Megson has termed West Bromwich Albion the ‘most political football club I've ever known’ but the job description is likely to gloss over the fractured dressing-room, boardroom battles and severed alliances as the search for a new manager begins.

1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 5 The next remove must be to the study of Politics; to know the beginning, end, and reasons of politicall societies.

1657 S. Purchas (title) A theatre of politicall flying-insects.

1690 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. ii. vii. §89 There only is a Political or Civil Society.

1741 J. Martyn tr. Virgil Georgics (1744) iv. 33/2 (note) The poet..speaks of the various offices which are assigned to these political insects [sc. bees] in their republick.

1776 J. Bentham Fragm. on Govt. i. §17 28 In any political society, the same man may..be..alternately, in the state of governor and subject.

1860 W. Collins Woman in White (new ed.) III. 278 The laws of the Brotherhood are the laws of no other political society on the face of the earth.

1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. xii. 358 Every independent political community, that is,..every independent community neither in a state of nature..nor in a state of anarchy.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 815/2 Bandelier declares that in Mexico existed neither state nor nation, nor political society of any kind.

1955 C. J. Friedrich in A. W. Macmahon Federalism xxvi. 510 When the foreign ministers of the six nations..decided to establish..a Political Community..they provided..that this..should be..of ‘an ultimate federal or a confederal structure.’

2004 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 28 Mar. (Zone C) 1 Blacks and whites were held to be so fundamentally different that they could not successfully assimilate culturally or biologically into a single political nation.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 65 Beside his politicall wisdome; his knowledge in Philosophie was very large. View more context for this quotation

1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel vi. 179 Riches are the Political glory and decor of any Kingdom.

1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub v. 116 For whereas, we are assured, he design'd his Work for a compleat Body of all Knowledge Human, Divine, Political, and Mechanick; it is manifest, he hath wholly neglected some, and been very imperfect in the rest.

1758 S. Johnson Idler 13 May 41 Many..of a more political understanding, are persuaded that we shall now see..the Ambassadors of France supplicating for pity.

1793 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 50 Have you read Mr. Fox's letter to the Westminster electors? It is quite the political go at Cambridge, and has converted many souls to the Foxite faith.

1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. i. 18 A young man, uncommitted in political principles.

1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks II. xvi. 157 Some oracular replies show great political wisdom.

1885 Spectator 16 May The ladder which leads to the highest positions in political life.

1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent ii. 38 Its deliberations upon international action for the suppression of political crime don't seem to get anywhere.

1940 G. Myrdal Population iv. 73 Sweden may well serve as a scientific laboratory for political studies of the population problem.

1989 B. H. Kerblay Gorbachev's Russia i. 20 It has taken unflagging courage and great political acumen for Gorbachev to swim against the current.

1786 W. Playfair (title) The commercial and political atlas.

1843 W. C. Woodbridge (title) Political map of North America: adapted to Woodbridge's Geography.

1904 Atlanta Constit. 31 Jan. 4/2 The atlas matter, with the excellent physical and political maps..we consider the best and most comprehensive now printed.

1989 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 12 Jan. v. 12/1 Illuminated globes that go from a physical globe, showing mountains, rivers and other physical features, to a political globe, showing national borders, with a flick of a switch.

2004 School Libr. Jrnl. Rev. 1 Feb. 162 The book is organized by continent, with each section introduced with a general description of the inhabitants, a political map, and abbreviated tables of pertinent statistics.

1839 Colored Amer. 9 Nov. Brother Cornish is put again this week, in his usual style, against the political action committee of this City, or rather, the lectures before that body, by Alvin Stewart, Esq., of Utica.

1875 N.Y. Times 27 Feb. 2/6 At a recent conference..of the Middlesex Good Templars.., the report of the Political Action Committee was adopted, recommending..a bill prohibiting the employment of young females behind bars in public houses.

1924 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 32 350 Not only did the American Federation of Labor again organize its national, state, and local political action committees, but for the first time the railroad brotherhoods did likewise.

2002 U.S. News & World Rep. 17 June 18/1 Her political action committee..has raised almost $900,000 this election cycle.

1930 Times 27 May 15/2 [He] has obtained an interim injunction against the Karachi Municipality restraining it from holding a special general meeting this evening to discuss a purely political agenda.]

1934 tr. V. Lenin Sel. Wks. III. i. Postscript iii. 127 They are the first to ‘place the bayonet on the agenda’ [i.e. resort to violence] as Russian autocracy has been doing systematically..since January 9. And since such a situation has arisen, since the bayonet has really taken first place on the political agenda..the constitutional illusions and school exercises in parliamentarism are becoming only a screen.

1965 Amer. Econ. Rev. 55 511 Poverty has been placed on the political agenda, oddly enough in spite of the fact that poor people are poor voters.

1994 Church Times 18 Nov. 19/2 When resources are so stretched and medical possibilities..so infinite, it's difficult not to suspect a political agenda behind a programme which is, at the very least, excellent PR for the hospital.

2001 CovertAction Q. Winter 16/1 Environmental activists, anti-globalization activists, and activists who use direct action to further their political agendas are particularly vulnerable to prosecution as ‘domestic terrorists’.

a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) Pref. As Students in Medicine, practice their inquiries upon cheap and common Animals, and such whose actions they are best acquainted with..I have chosen Ireland as such a Political Animal, who is scarce Twenty years old.]

1710 C. Place True Eng. Revolutionist iv. 45 To say he Instituted a general undetermin'd Dispository Power for Mankind, but put enough of it into no particular Hand to do them any Service..he thinks a very loose way of fitting out a Political Animal.

1776 W. Ellis tr. Aristotle Treat. Govt. i. ii. 6 Hence it is evident, that a city is a natural production, and that man is naturally a political animal.

1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto II. 113 The East End Jew is only slowly becoming a political animal.

1991 Paris Rev. Fall 161 Frost was a political animal in the literary world.

1915 N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 184 The allies will take account of the groups called ‘nationalities’, but without giving them the fictitious importance granted them by political anthropology.

1970 A. M. S. Smith tr. G. Balandier Polit. Anthropol. p. vii This book is also intended to show how political anthropology is contributing to a clearer definition and a better knowledge of the political field.

2003 Wall St. Jrnl. 6 June a10/3 What should really interest us about the FCC decision, or more precisely the blowback against it, are the things we may discover about what might be called the nation's cultural and political anthropology.

1672 W. Petty Let. 10 Mar. in Petty–Southwell Corr. (1928) 60 I have left the Political Arithmetic.]

1683 W. Petty (title) Another essay in political arithmetick, concerning the growth of the City of London.

1737 G. Berkeley Querist: Pt. III (new ed.) §248 Whether a little Reflection, and a little political Arithmetic may not shew us our Mistake?

1788 A. Hamilton Federalist Papers xxxiv. 208 The support of a navy, and of naval wars, would involve contingencies that must baffle all the efforts of political arithmetic.

1859 M. A. Richter Internal Relations 152 Much depends upon the political arithmetic and geometry.

1968 Internat. Encycl. Social Sci. XII. 350/2 William Petty, who founded the science of ‘political arithmetic’, or demography.

2001 Isis 92 607/1 A combined blueprint for political arithmetic, cameralism, political economy, improving agriculture, and rational management in the Enlightenment mode.

1852 Times 28 Feb. 4/4 These cantons, with their free press, their political asylum, and their creed, are intolerable to the jealous eye of neighbouring despotism.

1954 Times 14 Dec. 9/3 A steady consensus of judicial interpretation sustains the tradition of political asylum.

1991 Internat. Jrnl. Refugee Law 3 215 In a few exceptional cases, Mexico has granted political asylum to persons who..applied for asylum from outside the country.

1818 Lady Morgan in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 1 They all turn moi, pauvre chétive, into political capital in the fund of Illiberals.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xxii. 74 As insensible as an ox to everything he can't turn into political capital.

1991 N. Mailer Harlot's Ghost vi. ix. 1061 Goldwater seized the headlines. If we sent tractors to Castro, he said, our prestige ‘would have to sink even lower’. I couldn't believe he would use such a situation to make political capital.

1920 Times 15 July 13/6 He was Divisional Political Commissar on the Crimean front.

1937 E. Snow Red Star over China viii. vi. 299 The discussion continued for over an hour. Occasionally the commander or political commissar interrupted to summarize what had been said.

2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 Oct. 59/2 Single-minded young engineers or political commissars..or army commanders, shy and manly lovers.

1805 Witness (Litchfield, Conn.) 25 Sept. 3 The constitution presumes that the people are the judges of political correctness, and has accordingly left the decision to them.

1840 J. D. Hammond Hist. Polit. Parties in State of N.Y. 307 Although Mr. Clinton announced that he was against the bank, he was very careful to protest against making a support or opposition to it a test of..political correctness.

1935 Ironwood (Mich.) Daily Globe 28 May 4/8 The effect on wages in private industry would be nil, a circumstance which..presumably does not mitigate against the political correctness of the AFL's position.

1979 Washington Post 16 Sept. (Book World) 13/3 No matter what criticisms are hurled at this feminist fiction, no doubt the author will be cushioned by her political correctness.

2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 June 47/2 Political correctness as well as varied economic interests and anti-Semitism dictate that no third-world people can do wrong and no first-world people, right.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Day The Parts of a Political or Civil Day.

1800 J. Gale Gale's Cabinet of Knowl. (ed. 3) 37 Our present political day begins at midnight, yet some compute the vernal equinox from the astronomical day, beginning 12 hours later.

1787 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia xix, in Writings (1984) 290 The political oeconomists of Europe have established it as a principle that every state should endeavour to manufacture for itself.

1825 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) II. x. 197 He [sc. Mr. Monck] is a great Grecian and a great political economist.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 327 David Hume..one of the most profound political economists of his time.

1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 22 Nov. 38/2 Robert Reich, the well-known Harvard political economist.

a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 63 This brings me to the most important Consideration in Political Oeconomies, viz. how to make a Par and Equation between Lands and Labour, so as to express the Value of any thing by either alone.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. Introd. 1 Political œconomy..proposes two distinct objects;..to provide a plentiful revenue or subsistence for the people..and..to supply the state..with a revenue sufficient for the publick services.

1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. i. 2 The subject of a treatise on political economy is, the services which men render to each other; but those services only on which a price can be put.

1925 Amer. Mercury Aug. 397/1 He neglects his proper work..becomes a smatterer in political economy and sociology, preaches earnestly (and inaccurately) about many isms, and positively exudes the spirit of the uplift.

2002 Econ. & Polit. Weekly 20 Apr. 1487/2 The viciousness of Hindu fundamentalism still needs a follow-up explanation which takes into consideration the globalised nature of the political economy that has emerged.

1833 Essex Standard 9 Nov. Out-generalled by every petty state that choses [sic] to make it worth its while to deceive us—the political football of Europe—England.

1841 Congressional Globe 30 Jan. 119/1 These lands were nothing but a bone of contention—a political football, bandied about first by one party and than the other.

1857 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 12 Oct. 2/2 Smart of the Belfast Free Press is laboring..to keep the temperance question as a political football.

1915 Mansfield (Ohio) News 30 Oct. 6/2 The proposed amendment..is offered so that agitators may not make the Ohio Constitution a political football.

1971 Financial Mail (Johannesburg) 26 Feb. 673/3 The whole question of new negotiations seems to have become a political football and little more.

2001 Independent 22 Mar. i. 16/7 Then it became a political football, kicked around for two decades.

1712 Mem. Lit. I. xvii. 68/1 The Fourth Part is call'd Political Geography, because the Author discourses of Political Government.

1770 W. Guthrie New Geogr. Gram. v We have been enabled to give a more copious and a more perfect account of what is called Political Geography than has hitherto appeared.

1942 H. Beukema in A. Dorpalen World of Gen. Haushofer p. xii It is based on the broad foundations of geography, especially on political geography.

1993 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 21 Mar. 3/1 Jack Schiff, a professor of political geography at a university in St. Louis, is a victim of a debilitating disease that has left him a virtual invalid.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso lxxi. 348 His Majesty, that he might not disgrace the Prince of Political History [It. il Principe de gli Historici Politici],..was content that Tacitus should be told, he might do well to make as few of those spectacles as possible he could.

a1703 R. Hooke Lect. Light in Posthumous Wks. (1705) 104 Of this Opinion we find..all Historians, who have mentioned Comets in their Political History.

1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman xii. 411 Never forgetting the science of morality, nor the study of the political history of mankind.

1875 H. James in Nation 28 Jan. 62/2 It is, of course, as a contribution to English political history that this work has most value.

1992 T. Sizer Horace's School iv. 49 A cluster of important disciplines such as microeconomics, politics, ethics, and political history.

1883 E. W. Hamilton Diary 18 Mar. (1972) II. 411 Lady Hayter has played the part of political hostess this year excellently well.

1944 C. Dilke in Wine & Food Spring 24 The house of a well-known political hostess.

1977 J. Aiken Last Movement v. 92 Her..husband had suddenly ditched her in favour of a fat blonde political hostess.

2001 N.Y. Times 14 Jan. ix. 4/1 As Ms. Griscom said, referring to the Big Bertha of political hostesses: ‘Pamela Harriman was just heinous to women, had no time for them, was just contemptuous’.

1981 Off our Backs 31 Dec. 27 One publication frustrated from the many letters complaining about the political errors of the writers had a wild fantasy... They would pick subscribers at random and write them long abusive letters about the subscriber's political incorrectness.

1994 Loaded Sept. 40/1 Local councils have monitored his act to judge whether it contains material which might be offensive under their Equal Opportunities policies... Manning, the living embodiment of political incorrectness, remains somewhat bemused by all the fuss.

2002 Philadelphia Inquirer 15 Dec. a12/1 A gay magazine columnist who flaunted his political incorrectness by ridiculing Islam as backward and demanding an end to immigration.

1888 Ohio Democrat (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 4 Oct. The conscience of men has become so deadened by a long indulgence in legalized leeching of the product of labor and by patient acquiescence on the part of the masses, that a political levy of vast sums of money is treated as a matter of course.

1957 Times 22 Oct. 4/3 The Amalgamated Society of Woodcutting Machinists, Manchester, have rejected a proposal for a political levy of a farthing a week.

2004 F. Beckett & D. Hencke Blairs & their Court viii. 132 The deal was dead. Union members who paid the political levy were not to have a say in the choice of Labour parliamentary candidates.

1721 T. Gordon & J. Trenchard Independent Whig No. 44 High-Church Priest..by becoming Acting Politicians, confound all National, Publick, and Political Morality.

1861 J. S. Mill Represent. Govt. x. 193 Undoubtedly neither this nor any other maxim of political morality is absolutely inviolable.

1991 World Press Rev. Jan. 29/1 The dollar was the yardstick of political morality.

1735 Princ. Mod. Patriots Expos'd 21 But 'tis time to come to that Catastrophe our sagacious Author has thought fit to give us of his political Novel.

1866 Times 26 June 6/3 Felix Holt, the Radical, is not..a political novel, though it necessarily touches on politics.

1991 N. W. Ellis John Major iii. 107 He loves political novels, those of Trollope and less well-known authors.

1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. liv. 238 He..has a multitude of political offences to atone for.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 174 An amnesty was granted, with few exceptions, to all who, during the late troubles, had been guilty of political offences.

1852 Times 9 June 2/2 The 7th article of the convention provided that no person should be given up for a political offence.

1935 Ann. Reg. 1934 i. 191 A law of May 3 constituted..the so-called People's Court, for all political offences.

1991 Internat. Jrnl. Refugee Law 3 301 A Government Gazette Notice..follows the Final Report..of a joint ANC/Government Working Group on the definition of political offences in the South African situation.

1577 J. Dee Gen. Mem. Arte Nauig. 23 Three most lawfull Brytish Childern, and long wished for, of the true, Brytish, and Christian Druides, they being also, Politicall Philosophers, and not Sophisticate.]

1741 H. Fielding in Champion I. 207 What Advantage these Political Philosophers [sc. Deists] propose to themselves or the World from the Propagation of this Doctrine, is not easy to determine.

1833 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eng. & English II. 338 It is necessary..to distinguish between Mr. Bentham's practical conclusions..and his systematic views as a political philosopher.

1924 V. L. O. Chittick T. C. Haliburton xiii. 326 It was unquestionably not Sam Slick the political philosopher..that gave to his ‘Sayings and Doings’ the surprising vogue they formerly enjoyed.

1989 C. S. Murray Crosstown Traffic vii. 167 He is..a formidable post-gospel soul screamer,..a dubious political philosopher and a walking disaster area as a businessman.

1668 T. Sprat Life Cowley in A. Cowley Wks. sig. A3 Methinks for his maintaining one false Tenent in the Political Philosophy, he [sc. Cowley] made a sufficient Atonement.

1785 W. Paley (title) The principles of moral and political philosophy.

1825 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. Apr. 286 The general question, to what extent restraints upon the freedom of the press can be considered as warranted by sound principles of political philosophy.

1952 Middle East Jrnl. 6 473/2 Arabism, now the creed of a large number of people, is not the only political philosophy in vogue in the Arab world.

1976 Listener 3 June 705/1 There has been a real revival in political philosophy..particularly..in the U.S.A.

2003 Washington Post 17 July (Home ed.) a21/1 By 1997 North Korea's rulers, who hold a political philosophy called juche, or self-reliance, finally allowed..other countries to start donating food.

1816 Times 28 Sept. 2/5 The general police..is a political police: it tends to stifle or to poison public opinion; it strikes therefore at the heart of representative government.]

1833 Times 25 Nov. 1/6 We had every reason to hope that our [i.e. the French] political police, having been warned of its negligence by the flight of Colonel Erazo, would display more tact.

1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent xi. 353 A man somewhat over forty may be excusably thrown into considerable disorder by the prospect of losing his employment, especially if the man is a secret agent of political police.

2003 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 Mar. 23/2 Relief workers were constantly harassed by the Cheka—the political police.

1828 Times 18 Nov. 2/2 Some days ago a number of innocent political prisoners arrived at Alentejo, under a great escort of infantry.

a1854 Ld. Cockburn Memorials (1856) v. 330 The combiners..trusted that the bar of Scotland would always supply any force that the defence of political prisoners..might require.

1927 B. Russell Outl. Philos. iii. 44 Perhaps in time the State will perform these experiments with the children of political prisoners.

1991 Time 11 Feb. 57/3 The A.N.C. wants Pretoria to free all remaining political prisoners and allow exiles to return to South Africa before convening the Indaba.

1798 W. F. Mavor Brit. Nepos xxvi. 253 He withdrew to Switzerland, where he associated with Ludlow, and other political refugees.

1859 in A. H. Clough tr. Plutarch Lives III. 135 The Lacedæmonians issued a decree that political refugees from Athens might be arrested in whatever country they were found.

1941 A. Koestler Scum of Earth 137 Paragraph 19 of the Armistice Treaty, providing for the extradition of political refugees.

2003 Daily Tel. 29 Apr. 8/2 About 10,000 Afghanis who are not considered to be political refugees or have no other reason to stay are thought to be in the country.

1606 E. Forset Compar. Disc. Bodies Nat. & Politique 85 There bee sometimes such nimble headed Pragmatickes, that taking vpon them to be great entermedlers in state affaires, do for want of grounded knowledge in the politicall science, make many foule escapes.

1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. iii. 46 I know that Aristotle, in his first book of Politiques affirmes as a foundation of the whole politicall science, that some men by nature are made worthy to command, others only to serve.

1668 P. Rycaut Present State Ottoman Empire (new ed.) iii. ii. 172 This speculation is absolutely necessary to a true description of the Regiment of a Country; for the Martial Constitutions are the best part of the Political Science.

1792 A. Ferguson Princ. Moral & Polit. Sci. II. ii. vi. 411 Salus populi, suprema lex esto, is the fundamental principle of political science.

1898 G. B. Shaw Let. 18 Oct. (1972) II. 66 You and I have been confronted often enough with the follies of current political science.

1958 A. R. Radcliffe-Brown Method in Social Anthropol. i. iv. 102 Political systems, economic systems, and systems of law are studied in social anthropology and also in economics, political science and jurisprudence.

2003 New Yorker 28 July 83/1 There are dictators and there are dictators. Political science has distinguished two types: totalitarian and authoritarianism.

1885 Overland Monthly Oct. 394/2 The political scientist must work on the materials furnished to his hand by humanity as it exists.

1902 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 7 564 There is not a political evolution through steps a, b, c, d, etc., which the political scientist can account for.

2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 2 Feb. iv. 2/2 The genus of globe-trotting capitalists, first identified by the Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington, migrates each winter to this Alpine resort.

1936 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 1 163 Together they present a pretty consistent picture of what the political sociologists are thinking along this line.

1972 R. E. Dowse & J. A. Hughes Polit. Sociol. i. 7 Political sociologists do tend to concentrate on seeing in what ways society affects the state.

2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 June 37/1 This would not be anything to complain of if Wolin had set out to describe Tocqueville the political sociologist.

1905 Times 14 Oct. 11/5 (advt.) Mr. Alleyne Ireland's book, ‘The Far Eastern Tropics’.., is one of the most important of recent contributions to political sociology.

1968 Encycl. Soc. Sci. XII. 298/2 Broadly conceived, political sociology is concerned with the social basis of power in all institutional sectors of society... In narrower terms, political sociology focuses on the organizational analysis of political groups and..leadership.

1993 IRAL 31 76 (advt.) Our subject specialists track current developments in substantive areas such as political sociology.

1752 T. Hunter Observ. Tacitus ii. v. 249 Nor is there that political Theorist, antient or modern, that inspires the same Love of public Liberty.

1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) viii. 206 Each of his [sc. Plutarch's] ‘Lives’ is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists.

1923 R. C. Brooks Polit. Parties & Electoral Probl. vii. 106 Political theorists and adherents of minority parties frequently criticize the existing two-party system of the United States and advocate the adoption of a multi-party system.

1993 J. Green It: Sex since Sixties 135 Being gay..changed my academic career, because I'd been trained as a political theorist, but I decided to start writing about sexual history.

1752 W. Guthrie tr. Cicero Epist. Atticus I. vi. 307 All the other Expectants weaken by their Practice the political Theory [L. politeuma] of Cato.

1835 H. Reeve tr. A. de Tocqueville Democracy in Amer. II. ix. 242 When authority will be bandied from hand to hand, when political theories will succeed each other.

1896 J. N. Figgis Divine Right of Kings x. 256 It is a far cry from the conception expressed in the Holy Roman Empire, that theology is the source of political theory.

1926 R. H. Tawney Relig. & Rise Capitalism ii. 124 Recent political theory has been prolific in criticisms of the omnicompetent state.

1991 Washington Post 30 Jan. a20/5 Our Founders read and contributed to political theory.

1774 J. Maclaurin Arguments & Decisions Remarkable Cases 5 This was a political trial, in which the procedure and judgement were most improper.

1819 Times 6 May 3/4 Hence the Government has been lately compelled to withdraw from their cognizance the greater part of the political trials, in order to submit them to juries.

1960 Listener 3 Mar. 415/1 He introduced those concepts of guilt by association and guilt by intention which have always been a feature of political trials and disputes in Russia.

1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Aug. 41/1 At first his work in the archives of the Czech Party..was limited; all documents having to do with political trials were off-limits.

1676 V. Alsop Anti-Sozzo iv. 391 The Union between Christ, and the Christian Church, is..a Political Union: That is..such a union as is between a Prince and his subjects.

1701 C. Povey Unhappiness of Eng. 102 The other [sc. the Rights of Men] have respect to a Political Union, and the several branches of Civil Societies.

1844 C. J. Lever Tom Burke I. viii. 61 An intended attack on the government members of parliament..to prevent a political union with England.

1900 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 14 276 The Civil War wrought the basis for true political union of the United States.

1996 New Statesman 26 July 10/1 Europe drives towards unity via a single currency, to build political union by the back door without consent.

1765 Ann. Reg. 1764 39/1 They carried on to little purpose..a political warfare, if their commander left the field the moment they were assured of victory.

1822 W. Hazlitt Spirit of Partizanship in Table-talk (1852) 276 These are lax and cullible in their notions of political warfare.

1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. viii. 360 The selfishness which degrades political warfare into a branch of stock-jobbing.

1950 Chambers's Encycl. XI. 254/2 In 1941..Eden,..Bracken, the minister of information, and Dalton, who supervised propaganda to the enemy, constituted a Political Warfare Executive.

1997 M. Burleigh Nazi Europe in N. Ferguson Virtual Hist. (1998) vi. 328 Those with a more reflective understanding of political warfare..cautioned against alienating the Great Russian population through flirtations with excitable émigré separatists.

1794 Times 22 Sept. 1/6 Lecointre..administered to the political will of Robespierre.

1848 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 25 Nov. 349/1 The fulness of time was come when it was impossible for political will to avert a natural necessity.

1945 O. Marx tr. E. Koch-Weser Hitler & Beyond xi. 48 Not all the cabinets had the political will to dissolve the Reichswehr.

1972 Lat. Amer. (Nexis) 15 Sept. 293 Without directing private resources into those areas, or vastly increasing public resources through taxation—for neither of which the government has the political will..—it is difficult to see the new measures as more than a palliative.

2002 U.S. News & World Rep. 28 Oct. 72/2 This will enable Saddam to play rope-a-dope with the international community, fencing with inspectors until..the political will to bring Iraq to heel expires.

1834 Christian Observer Feb. 112 The spirit of some political ism..has inflamed many of the Dissenters against the Church.

1855 National Era 26 Apr. 68 The efforts that are being made to amalgamate the American party with the other politicalisms in various sections of the country, are proving but too successful.

1945 Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune 14 Nov. 4/2 A nation doesn't have to accept or even endorse the politicalism of another country in order to be friendly.

1998 Miami Herald (Nexis) 19 June 1 b (caption) Vizcaya director Richard Farwell calls the marketing contract ‘politicalism, not professionalism’.

1651 D. Cawdrey Inconsistencie Independent Way 55 If the whole Church be (as it is) called the body, house, Kingdome of Christ, those very notions carry with them a politicalnesse, if I may so speak.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 890 Not so much as any the least Seeds, either of Politicalness, or Ethicalness at all in it.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II. (at cited word) Politicalness, political quality.

1935 Discovery May 128/2 Notwithstanding all his politicalness and his zest for the letters and society..it is in the campaigns and battles that Mr Trevelyan is happiest.

2002 Guelph (Ont.) Mercury (Nexis) 4 July d3 We have a hint of politicalness to it. But I would say most of the record is political-free.