...northern latitude ; cynosure ; loadstar ; any guide or director. POLICE, (po-lees') ns The regulation anil government of a city or country, so far as regards the inhabitants. POLICY, (p9l'-le-se) n. «. The art of government, chiefly with respect to foreign powers , art ; prudence...

...last century. Johnson just admits it, but only as a French word used in England; for him police is " the regulation and government of a city or country so far as regards the inhabitants." The group of words, police, policy, polity, politics, politic, political, politician, is a good example...

...think or speak of but with love and esteem.' See/<v/, under March 30, 1783. * Johnson defines police as the regulation and government of a city or country, so far as regards the inhabitants. by Aetat.60.] J ohntori s Letter to Mr. Welch. by his interest with Mr. Chamier', procured him leave...

...word 'police' in his famous dictionary, 'but only as a French word used in England,' and as meaning 'the regulation and government of a city or country so far as regards the inhabitants' (Maitland 1885: 105). Only in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries did an important shift...

..."The English lexicographer Samuel Johnson defined this rather vague term in his dictionary of 1755 as the "regulation and government of a city or country so far as regards the inhabitants." In his first American dictionary, published in 1806, Noah Webster defined "police" as "the government...

...was mainly known for his history of the Royal Society and for a life of Abraham Cowley. 9 'POLICE. The regulation and government of a city or country, so far as regards the inhabitants' Johnson, Dictionary, art. 'Police'. 10 Sail ust. The Wars of Catiline, 28.4. 1 1 Hume's reference in...