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" My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated."
Michael Polanyi

Meaning of "body politic" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF BODY POLITIC

body politic


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BODY POLITIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Body politic is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BODY POLITIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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 top 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.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BODY POLITIC

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WORDS THAT END LIKE BODY POLITIC

aerolitic · chrysolitic · clitic · critic · encephalitic · enclitic · Glagolitic · impolitic · marlitic · oolitic · ophiolitic · pearlitic · pelitic · politic · rhyolitic · spherulitic · staurolitic · syphilitic · the body politic · zeolitic · zoolitic

Synonyms and antonyms of body politic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «body politic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BODY POLITIC

Find out the translation of body politic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of body politic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «body politic» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

政治体
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

cuerpo político
570 millions of speakers
en

English

body politic
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

राजनीति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الجسم السياسي
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

политическое тело
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

corpo político
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

শরীরের রাজনৈতিক
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

corps politique
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Politik tubuh
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Staatskörper
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

国政
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

몸 의 정치
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Politik awak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cơ thể chính trị
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

உடல் அரசியல்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

शरीर राजकीय
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Beden politikası
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

corpo politico
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

ciało polityczne
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

політичне тіло
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

corp politic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πολιτικό σώμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

staatsbestel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

politiska kroppen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

politiske kropp
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about body politic

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5 QUOTES WITH «BODY POLITIC»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word body politic.
1
B. R. Ambedkar
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
2
Samuel Freeman Miller
A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic.
3
Michael Polanyi
My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated.
4
Tariq Ramadan
National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
5
Bayard Rustin
I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BODY POLITIC»

Discover the use of body politic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to body politic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America
Will we soon be counting robots, cyborgs, and chimeras among our friends and family?The first book to unpackour love/hate relationship with science from our country's origins to today, The Body Politic is essential reading for science buffs ...
Jonathan D. Moreno, 2011
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The Book of the Body Politic
This is the first translation into modern English of Christine de Pizan's major political work, The Book of the Body Politic (c. 1407).
Christine, Kate Langdon Forhan, 1994
3
Body Politic
In the year 2020, in Edinburgh--a city in which TV, private cars, and popular music are banned and crime is nonexistent--a serial killer known as the "Ear, Nose and Throat Man" stalks the inhabitants, and only a disgraced, rebellious ...
Paul Johnston, 1999
4
My Body Politic: A Memoir
The stories in My Body Politic are populated with richly drawn portraits of Linton's disabled comrades, people of conviction and lusty exuberance who dance, play-and organize--with passion and commitment.
Simi Linton, 2007
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The Body Politic: Corporeal Metaphor in Revolutionary ...
Drawing on some 2,000 sources, this is a remarkable history of the French Revolution told through the study of images of the body as they appeared in the popular literature of the time.
Antoine de Baecque, 1997
6
Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic: From Britain's ...
Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic explores the origins and lasting influences of two contesting but intertwined discourses that persist today when we use the words landscape, country, scenery, nature, national.
Kenneth Olwig, 2002
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Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece
Valued for their sensual and social intensity, Greek dance-events are often also problematical for participants, giving rise to struggles over position, prestige, and reputation.
Jane K. Cowan, 1990
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Healing the Body Politic: El Salvador's Popular Struggle for ...
Healing the Body Politic recounts the dramatic story of radical health activism from its origins in liberation theology and guerrilla medicine during the third-world country's twelve-year civil war, through development of a remarkable ...
Sandra C. Smith-Nonini, 2010
9
Body Politic: The Great American Sports Machine
In Body Politic, David Shields looks at contemporary America and its mythology through the lens of professional and college sports.
David Shields, 2010
10
Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social ...
Jonathan Gil Harris examines the origins of modern discourses of social pathology in Elizabethan and Jacobean medical and political writing.
Jonathan Gil Harris, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BODY POLITIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term body politic is used in the context of the following news items.
1
What Does the Greek Vote Mean for the EU?
This crisis is not just about money, it is not just about the appalling state of the Greek body politic, this crisis is about the future of Europe. «Carnegie Europe, Jul 15»
2
ANC must emulate Afrikaners to bring transformation
... and to demonstrate, to all and sundry, that Afrikaner capitalism is a workable system that deserves its continued existence in our body politic. «Independent Online, Jul 15»
3
Independent Voices: America needs more independent thinking …
Such scenes do not paint a healthy picture of our body politic. The free nation bequeathed to us by the founders risks to unmake itself through ... «Press Herald, Jul 15»
4
Press Release: Free, Professional Facilitation for Healing …
Fear can diminish. Anger can de-tox...and our body politic can experience some real healing! At the end of the summer, pictures will be posted ... «Utah Policy, Jul 15»
5
Ideological strife in the Muslim world
The sooner they are eliminated from the Islamic body politic, the better for the world of Islam. Finally, a tussle is going on in the Muslim world ... «The Nation, Jul 15»
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'Indigenous people are a polity'. On sovereignty and constitutional …
The attempt to share sovereignty in anyway entailed so many “worms in the entrayles” of the body politic, as Hobbes so memorably put it. «The Conversation AU, Jul 15»
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Lakeville, Lapaz trying not to be passed by after U.S. 31 realignment
We've been in touch with the body politic and they say they're trying to make it better but we get no respect. We're a little community and we're ... «South Bend Tribune, Jul 15»
8
The 25 Best Movies of 2015 (So Far)
... a story of communal insularity and the fracturing effect a lie can have on the body politic. With Far From the Madding Crowd, he again studies ... «Paste Magazine, Jul 15»
9
The imperial arrogance of the EPA
... two federal agencies, which should by their very natures be instruments of the people's will, is a sad commentary on the body politic of today. «Bismarck Tribune, Jul 15»
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LETTER: Yes, religious freedom and gay marriage can coexist
... of one's thoughts on gay individuals getting married, we all should be celebrating marriage's expansion to the whole of our body politic. Why? «Grand Forks Herald, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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