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As a noun policy

is (obsolete) the art of governance; political science or policy can be a contract of insurance.

As a verb policy

is to regulate by laws; to reduce to order.

policy

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) policie, from . Compare police.

Noun

(policies)
  • (obsolete) The art of governance; political science.
  • * a. 1616 , (William Shakespeare), Henry V , I.1:
    • List his discourse of Warre; and you shall heare / A fearefull Battaile rendred you in Musique. / Turne him to any Cause of Pollicy , / The Gordian Knot of it he will vnloose, / Familiar as his Garter
  • (obsolete) A state; a polity.
  • (obsolete) A set political system; civil administration.
  • (obsolete) A trick; a stratagem.
  • * a. 1594 , (William Shakespeare), Titus Andronicus :
    • 'Tis pollicie , and stratageme must doe / That you affect, and so must you resolue, / That what you cannot as you would atcheiue, / You must perforce accomplish as you may.
  • A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body.
    • The Communist Party has a policy of returning power to the workers.
  • Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
  • * 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Modern Library Edition (1995), page 140:
    • These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I with greater policy concealed my struggles, and flattered you
  • * Fuller
    • The very policy of a hostess, finding his purse so far above his clothes, did detect him.
  • (now, rare) Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.
  • * 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.25:
    • Whether he believed himself a god, or only took on the attributes of divinity from motives of policy , is a question for the psychologist, since the historical evidence is indecisive.
  • (Scotland, now, chiefly, in the plural) The grounds of a large country house.
  • * 1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, page 36:
    • Next morning was so splendid that as he walked through the policies towards the mansion house despair itself was lulled.
  • (obsolete) Motive; object; inducement.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • What policy have you to bestow a benefit where it is counted an injury?
    Derived terms
    * policied * policymaker * policy shift * endowment policy * fiscal policy * honesty is the best policy * monetary policy * policy mix

    Verb

  • To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Policying of cities.''

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) police, from (etyl) polizza, from

    Noun

    (policies)
  • A contract of insurance
  • * Your insurance policy covers fire and theft only.
  • (obsolete) An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural )
  • A number pool lottery
    • Synonyms
    * (number pool) policy racket
    Derived terms
    * policyholder

    External links

    * (wikipedia)

    cod

    English

    (wikipedia cod)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) codd, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A small bag or pouch.
    • (Halliwell)
  • (UK, obsolete) A husk or integument; a pod.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke XV:
    • And he wolde fayne have filled his bely with the coddes , that the swyne ate: and noo man gave hym.
    (Mortimer)
  • The scrotum (also in plural).
  • * 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.4:
    • that which we call castoreum are not the same to be termed testicles or stones; for these cods or follicles are found in both sexes, though somewhat more protuberant in the male.
  • (obsolete) A pillow or cushion.
    • (Halliwell)
    Derived terms
    * codpiece

    Etymology 2

    Origin uncertain; perhaps ultimately the same as Etymology 1, above.

    Noun

  • A marine fish of the family Gadidae.
  • A marine fish resembling a cod of the genus Gadus , such as the .
    • Derived terms
    * bay cod * codfish * codling * cod liver oil * rock cod * shore cod

    Etymology 3

    Origin unknown.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A joke or an imitation.
    • I assume it all could just be a cod .
  • A stupid or foolish person.
    • He's making a right cod of himself.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the character of imitation; jocular. (now usually attributive, forming mostly compound adjectives).
    • “Illegitimi non carborundum” is a well-known example of cod Latin.
    Dalton categorises Muse's latest composition as “cod -classical bombast”.

    Verb

  • (slang, transitive, dialectal) To attempt to deceive or confuse.

    • Derived terms

    * codswallop

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