Po*lit"i*cal (?), a.
1.
Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.
[R.] "A
political government."
Evelyn.
2.
Of or pertaining to public policy, or to politics; relating to affairs of state or administration; as, a political writer.
"The
political state of Europe."
Paley.
3.
Of or pertaining to a party, or to parties, in the state; as, his political relations were with the Whigs.
4.
Politic; wise; also, artful.
[Obs.]
Sterne.
Political economy, that branch of political science or philosophy which treats of the sources, and methods of production and preservation, of the material wealth and prosperity of nations.
© Webster 1913.