a. [UN-1 7, 5 b.] Impolitic.

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a. 1548.  Hall, Chron., Hen. V., 65. He imagined that all mischiefes … whiche chaunced in the common wealth should bee imputed and assigned to his vnpolitike doyng.

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1591.  G. Fletcher, Russe Commw. (Hakl. Soc.), 44. It might seeme … to bee no bad nor unpollitique way for conteyning of so large a commonwealth.

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1647.  Clarendon, Hist. Reb., I. § 150. The Circumstances and Proceedings … were very Unpolitick, and even Destructive to the Services intended.

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1664.  H. More, Myst. Iniq., vi. 17. It had been the most unpolitick action … to offer them any strange God to worship.

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1721.  Amherst, Terræ Fil., No. (1726), 240. In this odd, unpolitic manner, did I conduct myself.

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1747.  Carte, Hist. Eng., I. 268. The great slaughter … put their affairs into a condition, which rendered it very unpolitick to provoke new enemies.

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