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- abbreviation Poland
- abbreviation Polish
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of
Polish .
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- noun a person active in party politics
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Testament also has these two meanings -- cf. Aristotle, "Pol.",
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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"V. H." viii. 9, re Archelaus king of Macedon, concerning whom Aristotle, "Pol." v. 10. 1311
The Symposium 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874
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"Pol." v. 11. 10, in illustration of the tyrant's usual method of raising money.
Hiero 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874
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The favorite of Apollo while sojourning on earth in the character of a shepherd lad named "Pol."
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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See also In Eth. prologue 4, where St. Thomas, following more closely the Aristotelian doctrine of Pol. i. 2, no longer believes the Avicennian reasoning to be capable of demonstrating the conclusion that man is a political animal.
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997
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Since the state is a perfect whole, it must consist of parts which differ among themselves specifically In Pol. ii.
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997
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This is neither here nor in Pol. i. 1 the Aristotelian clanvillage, but the street of the medieval town, called vicus e.g., Vicus Straminis.
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997
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“The people for the most part fail to use reason” In Pol. iv.
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997
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"But at what time," says the judicious Hooker (Eccl. Pol., lib. i., s. 6), "a man may be said to have attained so far forth the use of reason as sufficeth to make him capable of those laws whereby he is then bound to guide his actions; this is a great deal more easy for sense to discern than for any one, by skill and learning, to determine."
Two Treatises of Government: of Civil Government Book II 1698
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8Although there is no doubt about the fact that Pol. v. 11 is the source of this section, yet the text cannot be shown to depend literally on this source.
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997
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