- 1政體；政治共同體
A polity is a people organised as a political whole — a country, a city-state, sometimes a church with its own rules of who decides. Scholars use it when they want the shape of the organisation, not the daily fighting. You can mean the form ('a democratic polity') or the organised community itself ('the polity'). It is a textbook and classroom word; almost nobody says it at dinner. Church writers still say church polity for how a church is run: bishops, or a meeting of members, or something in between. Though actually, it is easy to mix with policy (a plan) and (the game). Those three look like cousins, and they are — they come from the same old Greek word for the life of the city — but they do different jobs now.
組成From Middle French politie, from Latin polītīa, from Greek politeía (the life of the city; the state). Same distant source as police and policy — true doublets, now with very different meanings.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
politynoun/ˈpɒl.ɪ.ti/
- 1
governmentlifestylepoliticsOrganizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.
- Church polity was a topic of fierce dispute in 17th-century Britain.
- Once exposed, Confucianism was to become a political issue, an alternative among other contending ideologies which threatened to change the polity of the empire.
- 2
political-sciencesocial-sciencesA politically organized unit, especially a nation of people, a class or ingroup that governs it, or the state ruled thereby.
- New polities emerged in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire.
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