Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of policy.
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Examples
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It is a deintie to haue in Assiria a showre of raine: and therefore are thei constreined for the due moistyng of their lande, to tolle in the riuers by pollicie of trenching and damming: wherwith thei so plentifie their grounde, that thei communely receiue two hundred busshelles for a busshell, and in some speciall veine, three hundred for one.
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Yet exercise thei a maner of warre, but that thei handle rather by witte, and pollicie, then by strength and hardinesse.
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This king by the pollicie of his yoonger sonne, was depriued of his kingdome, who because hee had entised and done that which pleased the armie and souldiours, in despight of his father and brother being prince, vsurped the kingdome, and became a great warriour.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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So did Tirteus in warre matters, and Solon in matters of pollicie, or rather they being Poets {6}, did exercise their delightfull vaine in those points of highest knowledge, which before them laie hidden to the world.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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So then the best of the Historian is subject to the Poet, for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsaile, pollicie, or warre, strategeme, the Historian is bound to recite, that may the Poet if hee list with his imitation make his owne; bewtifying it both for further teaching, and more delighting as it please him: having all from Dante his heven to his hell, under the authority of his pen.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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[Sidenote: Cresus.] and witte of Esope semed singuler: for at what tyme as Cre - sus, the kyng of the Lidians, made warre against the Sami - ans, he with his wisedome and pollicie, so pacified the minde of Cresus, that all warre ceased, and the daunger of the coun -
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But also forraine nacions, hauyng one, who [m] for his valiauntnes thei dreade, doe practise and inure them selues, to all dexteritee, counsaile, wisedome, and pollicie: soche a one was Epaminundas, to his enemies and cou [n] trée.
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Whether doeth pollicie more auaile in war, then stre [n] gth of menne.
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No doubt but that Cyrus sawe, by the like exam - ple of other kyngdomes, this onelie pollicie to bee a ruine
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The state of euery one vniuersallie would come to par - dicion, if the inuasion of foraine Princes, by the wisedom and pollicie of counsailers, were not repelled.
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