public hearted (publikharted)

Having the interests of the people at heart; public spirited. They were public - hearted men; as they paid all taxes, so they gave up all their time to their country's service, without any reward. Clarendon, Great Rebellion. publicist (pub'li-sist), n. [F. public i ste = Sp. Pg. publicist a = It. pubblicista; as public + -ist.] 1. A writer on the law of nature or the laws of nations; one who is versed in public or international law; one who treats of the rights and mutual obligations of nations. The methodized reasonings of the great publicists and jurists form the digest and jurisprudence of the Christian world. Burke , A Regicide Peace, ii. The mixed systems of jurisprudence and morals constructed by the publicists of the Low Countries appear to have been much studied by English lawyers. Maine , Ancient Law, p. 45. Many publicists still view the allowance of transit [to belligerents) as reconcilable with the notion of neutrality, and a number of treaties have expre ly granted it to certain states. Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, § 160. 2. One who is versed in or who writes upon the current political topics of the time. This eminent publicist , Mr. Arthur Pen dennis. Thackeray, Pen dennis, xxxvi. "Slow and sure" is not the motto of either reader or writer in these days. Public and publicist are acceptable to each other in proportion as they are ready to conform to the electric influences of the times. Nineteenth Century, XX. 515.