Definitions for body politic
body politic

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1. state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politicnoun

   a politically organized body of people under a single government

   "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"

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1. body politicnoun

   The collective body of a nation or state as politically organized, or as exercising political functions.

2. body politicnoun

   A corporation.

3. Etymology: body + politic

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1. body politic

   A body politic refers to a group of individuals or entities organized and governed under a single political and administrative structure. It can refer to a nation, state, or other politically defined entity that is governed by a particular set of policies and leaders. This concept implies that all members of this group operate as part of a single entity in political matters. In essence, it's the collective group of citizens that constitute a state or nation, self-governed under a form of constitution.

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1. Body politic

   A body politic is a metaphor in which a nation is considered to be a corporate entity, being likened to a human body. The word "politic" in this phrase is a postpositive adjective; so it is "a body of a politic nature" rather than "a politic of a bodily nature". A body politic comprises all the people in a particular country considered as a single group. The analogy is typically continued by reference to the apex of government as the head of state, but may be extended to other anatomical parts, as in political readings of the Aesop's fable, "The Belly and the Members". The metaphor also appears in the French language as the corps-état. The metaphor developed in Renaissance times, as the medical knowledge based upon the classical work of Galen was being challenged by new thinkers such as William Harvey. Analogies were made between the supposed causes of disease and disorder and their equivalents in the political field which were considered to be plagues or infections which might be remedied by purges and nostrums.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of body politic in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of body politic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of body politic in a Sentence

1. Plato:

   Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

2. June Jordan:

   If any of us hopes to survive, s/he must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.

3. Tom McMillen:

   The body politic has shifted left, there’s no question about it, and that’s toward more student-athlete empowerment.

4. William Barr:

   Just like a physical body, the body politic must have an immune system that resists anti-Semitism and other forms of racial hatred.

5. Tom Rawles:

   I think the last three to six weeks have been a turning point, we can always fight over the issues. But we need to cut out the cancer that is infecting the body politic of America.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=body politic
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Body_Politic
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=body politic