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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Politic \Pol"i*tic\, adjective [L. politicus political, Gr. ? belonging to the citizens or to the state, fr.? citizen: cf. F. politique. See {Police}, and cf. {ePolitical}.]
1. Of or pertaining to polity, or civil government; political; as, the body politic. See under {Body}.
He with his people made all but one politic body. --Sir P. Sidney.
2. Pertaining to, or promoting, a policy, especially a national policy; well-devised; adapted to its end, whether right or wrong; -- said of things; as, a politic treaty. ''Enrich'd with politic grave counsel.'' --Shak.
3. Sagacious in promoting a policy; ingenious in devising and advancing a system of management; devoted to a scheme or system rather than to a principle; hence, in a good sense, wise; prudent; sagacious; and in a bad sense, artful; unscrupulous; cunning; -- said of persons.
Politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy. --Shak.
Syn: Wise; prudent; sagacious; discreet; provident; wary; artful; cunning.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Politic \Pol'i*tic\, noun A politician. [Archaic] --Bacon.
Swiftly the politic goes; is it dark? he borrows a lantern; Slowly the statesman and sure, guiding his feet by the stars. --Lowell.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
politic
adjective
1: marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness; "it is neither polite nor politic to get into other people's quarrels"; "a politic decision"; "a politic manager"; "a politic old scoundrel"; "a shrewd and politic reply" [ant: {impolitic}]
2: smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"; "the hostess averted a confrontation between two guests with a diplomatic change of subject"; "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error"; "affable, suave, moderate men...smugly convinced of their respectability" - Ezra Pound [syn: {smooth}, {suave}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
192 Moby Thesaurus words for "politic": Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adept, adroit, advantageous, advisable, appropriate, apt, arch, artful, artistic, astute, authoritative, becoming, befitting, bravura, brilliant, cagey, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, civic, clean, clever, congruous, considerate, convenient, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, crafty, cunning, cute, daedal, deceitful, decent, deep, deep-laid, deft, deliberate, delicate, designing, desirable, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, discreet, discriminating, discriminative, enlightened, evasive, excellent, expedient, expert, fancy, favorable, feasible, felicitous, feline, fit, fitten, fitting, foxy, fructuous, geopolitical, gingerly, good, goodish, governmental, graceful, guarded, guileful, handy, happy, heedful, hesitant, ingenious, insidious, intelligent, inventive, judgmatic, judicial, judicious, knowing, leaving out nothing, likely, magisterial, masterful, masterly, meet, mindful, neat, no mean, noncommittal, on guard, opportune, overlooking no possibility, pawky, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, political, politico-commercial, politico-diplomatic, politico-economic, politico-geographical, politico-judicial, politico-military, politico-moral, politico-religious, politico-scientific, politico-social, politico-theological, professional, proficient, profitable, proper, provident, prudent, prudential, quick, quite some, ready, recommendable, reflecting, reflective, regardful, resourceful, right, safe, sagacious, sage, scheming, seasonable, seemly, sensible, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, skillful, slick, slippery, slow to act, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, some, sophistical, sortable, statesmanlike, stealthy, strategic, stylish, subtile, subtle, suffragist, suitable, supple, tactful, tactical, tentative, the compleat, the complete, thorough, thoughtful, timely, to be desired, trickish, tricksy, tricky, unadventurous, uncommunicative, undaring, unenterprising, unprecipitate, useful, virtuoso, vulpine, wary, well-advised, well-done, well-judged, well-timed, wily, wise, workmanlike, worthwhile
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