Pragmatic

-al , prag-mat′ik, -al, adj. of or pertaining to public busine : skilled in affairs: active: practical: interfering with the affairs of others: officious: meddlesome: self-important.— n. Pragmat′ic , a man of busine , a busybody: a public decree.— adv. Pragmat′ically .— ns. Pragmat′icalne , Prag′matism , activity: earnestne : meddlesomene ; Prag′matist .— Pragmatic method , a method of treating events with reference to their causes, conditions, and results—also called Prag′matism ; Pragmatic sanction , a special decree i ued by a sovereign, such as that pa ed by the Emperor Charles VI. of Germany, securing the crown to Maria The res a, and which led to the war so called in 1741. [Fr.,—L.,—Gr. pragmatikos — pragma — pragmatos , deed— pra ein , to do.]