Diplomatic vs Polished - What's the difference?
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Concerning the relationships between the governments of countries.
Exhibiting diplomacy; exercising tact or courtesy; using discussion to avoid hard feelings, fights or arguments.
describing a publication of a text which follows a single basic manuscript, but with variants in other manuscripts noted in the critical apparatus
* Whereas a diplomatic edition uses as its base text a single, "best" manuscript, to which other textual evidence is collated and organized into an apparatus, a critical text of the LXX/OG may be described as a collection of the oldest recoverable texts, carefully restored book by book (or section by section), aiming at achieving the closest approximation to the original translations (from Hebrew or Aramaic) or compositions (in Greek), systematically reconstructed from the widest array of relevant textual data (including controlled conjecture).''
Relating to diplomatics, or the study of old texts; paleographic.
The science of diplomas, or the art of deciphering ancient writings and determining their age, authenticity, etc.; paleography.
* 1983 , Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett, Studies in English legal history (page 151)
Made smooth or shiny by polishing.
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As adjectives the difference between diplomatic and polished
is that diplomatic is concerning the relationships between the governments of countries while polished is made smooth or shiny by polishing.As a noun diplomatic
is the science of diplomas, or the art of deciphering ancient writings and determining their age, authenticity, etc.; paleography.As a verb polished is
past tense of polish.diplomatic
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Alternative forms
* diplomatick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- She spent thirty years working for Canada's diplomatic service.
- Albania immediately severed diplomatic relations with Zimbabwe.
- Thoughtful corrections can be diplomatic as well as instructional.
The International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, ''Critical Editions of Septuagint/Old Greek Texts.
Derived terms
* diplomatic bag * diplomatic flu * diplomatic immunity * diplomatic mission * diplomatic pouch * diplomatic relationsNoun
(-)- In its broadest aspect, the subject-matter of diplomatic is the relation between documents and facts.
polished
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,
- She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished , pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
