Political \Po*lit"i*cal\, a.
   1. Having, or conforming to, a settled system of
      administration. [R.] "A political government." --Evelyn.
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   2. Of or pertaining to public policy, or to politics;
      relating to affairs of state or administration; as, a
      political writer. "The political state of Europe."
      --Paley.
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   3. Of or pertaining to a party, or to parties, in the state;
      as, his political relations were with the Whigs.
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   4. Politic; wise; also, artful. [Obs.] --Sterne.
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   Political economy, that branch of political science or
      philosophy which treats of the sources, and methods of
      production and preservation, of the material wealth and
      prosperity of nations.
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   gubernatorial, heteronomous, matriarchal, matriarchic, monarchal,
   monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, national, official, oligarchal,
   oligarchic, parliamentarian, parliamentary, partisan, patriarchal,
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   statesmanlike, suffragist, theocratic, totalitarian

	

	POLITICAL. Pertaining to policy, or the administration of the government. 
Political rights are those which may be exercised in the formation or 
administration of the government they are distinguished from civil, rights, 
which are the rights which a man enjoys, as regards other individuals, and 
not in relation to the government. A political corporation is one which has 
principally for its object the administration of the government, or to which 
the powers of government, or a part of such powers, have been delegated. 1 
Bouv. Inst. n. 182, 197, 198.