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polypragmatic, a. (n.)|ˌpɒlɪprægˈmætɪk|
[f. Gr. πολυπράγµατ-ος busy about many things, over-busy (f. πολυ-, poly- + πράγµα(τ-) thing done) + -ic.]
Busying oneself about many affairs (that are not one's own); meddlesome, officious.
1616Jas. I. Sp. in Starre-Chamb. 20 June 48 For those Polypragmaticke Papists, I would you would studie out some seuere punishment for them. 1638Drummond of Hawthornden Lines on Bishops Poems (1856) 340 Like to polypragmatic Machiavel. 1656in Blount Glossogr. 1885Sat. Rev. 22 Aug. 248/2 Troublesome and polypragmatic operosity.
†B. n. A meddlesome person, a busybody. Obs.
1636H. Burton Apology Ep. to Nobility 20 Shall we see Religion overturned..by a Faction of Iesuited Poly-pragmatiques? 1684T. Goddard Plato's Demon 23 Do you not think it a little arrogance in our Polypragmatick..to assume the Title even of Plato himself?
So † polypragˈmatical a.; polyˈpragmatism, officious or over-busy conduct; polyˈpragmatist, † polyˈpragmist, a busybody; polyˈpragmaty, ‘the state of being over-engaged with business or matters’ (Webster 1864).
1597in G. Harvey Trimming Nashe Wks. (Grosart) III. 13 To the *polypragmaticall..Puppie, Thomas Nashe. 1657Purchas Pol. Flying Ins. 329 This idle Gamster with a blind bone out of his jugling box, with the activity of a polypragmaticall finger, can..undoe many an hopefull heire.
1890Sat. Rev. 24 May 622/2 The Council's elder brother in extravagance and *polypragmatism, the School Board.
1631Heywood Eng. Eliz. Pref. (1641) 7 And such *Polypragmatists this age is full of.
1613E. Hoby Countersnarle 4 This *Polypragmist, forsooth, to shew his inuincible courage..hath vndertaken the Combat. |