单词 | politique |
释义 | politiquen. 1. a. A politician, esp. a pragmatic or unprincipled one. Frequently derogatory. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > French politics > [noun] > members or adherents of other parties politique1581 muscadin1794 Frondeur1798 doctrinaire1820 society > faith > aspects of faith > creed > [noun] > indifference to > person politic1533 politique1581 adiaphorist1607 politician1643 latitudinarian1662 anythingariana1704 indifferentist1807 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > temporizing or trimming > temporizer or trimmer Jack of both sides1554 mongrela1555 timeling1554 temporizer1555 time-taker1576 politique1581 time-server1583 time-pleaser1590 time observer1594 temporist1596 please-time1606 timist1614 timorist?1623 trimmer1682 Vicar of Bray1725 timer1842 1581 J. Fielde Caueat for Parsons Howlet f. lv These greatest and wittiest their captaines and chiefteines beeing politiques haue offended of knowledge. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. A4v Ignorance seuerally disguised, appearing sometimes in the zeale and iealousie of Diuines; sometimes in the seueritie and arrogancie of Politiques . View more context for this quotation 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia sig. Aijv Interpreters henceforth grow out of date, While Politiques usurpe the Sultans state. 1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 564/1 The middle party, the Politiques of Europe,—the English, that is, and the Germans,—sent help to Henry. 1959 Encounter July 45/2 Some presenting him [sc. Odysseus] as an enlightened statesman, others as a machiavellian politique. 1980 Daily Tel. 21 Aug. 11/4 He was a cold-blooded politique, who under false charm used and discarded his dependants. 1996 D. Wilson Hans Holbein Introd. 3 Politiques who..were too absorbed in administration or money-making to concern themselves with principles. b. A member of a moderate Catholic group, founded in France after the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre, which regarded peace and national unity as more important than the religious war between Ultramontane Catholics and Huguenots. historical. ΚΠ 1684 J. Dryden tr. L. Maimbourg Hist. League i. 8 A party of Malecontents amongst the Catholiques, who were call'd the Politiques, because without touching on Religion, they protested that they took Arms onely for the publique good. 1710 Acct. Conduct Roman-Catholick Clergy 32 The Politiques consulted the Benefit of the Catholick Clergy, as far as was consistent with the general Welfare of the Nation. 1888 Q. Rev. 167 21 At Court three great parties were contending for power in the King's name—the Guises, the Reformers, and the Politiques. 1909 J. W. Thompson Wars of Relig. in France xi. 325 The fusion of the political Huguenots with the Politiques reduced the ‘religious’ Huguenots to a left-wing minority. 1999 Amer. Hist. Rev. 104 1763/1 The oversimple interpretation of these conflicts as a contest between three distinct parties of Huguenots, ultra-Catholics and politiques. 2. A political concept or doctrine; an expression of political ideas. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > [noun] > a political principle, concept, or doctrine polity1642 politique1958 1958 A. Dru tr. C. Péguy Temporal & Eternal 27 It [sc. a country] needs a sound politique, which means a good government policy. 1977 A. Ecclestone Staircase for Silence v. 88 Politique..set in as a process of dislocation,..a choosing to go it alone. It became an end in itself, ever seeking an aggrandisement of its own power. 2002 First Things 1 Jan. 69 The degeneration of the Dreyfusite ‘mystique’..into a ‘politique’ of anti-liberal, anti-Christian, and anti-patriotic demagogy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1581 |
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