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Posse comitatus   /pˈɑsi kɔmətˈeɪtəs/   Listen
Posse comitatus

noun
1.
A temporary police force.  Synonym: posse.






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"Posse comitatus" Quotes from Famous Books



... congregation, contesseration^, convergence &c 290; meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home; conversazione [It] &c (social gathering) 892; assembly, congress; convention, conventicle; gemote^; conclave &c (council) 696; posse, posse comitatus [Lat.]; Noah's ark. miscellany, collectanea^; museum, menagerie &c (store) 636; museology^. crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue^, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo^; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... third auerred his right to the Crowne of Fraunce, by the euidence of armes, the French for a counterplea, made an vnlawfull entry into Deuon and Cornwall; but Hugh Courtney Earle of Deuon, remooued it with posse Comitatus, and recommitted them to the wooden prison that brought them thither. Yet would not the Scots take so much warning by their successe, as example by their precedent, if at least, Froissarts [98] ignorance of our English names, bred not his mistaking ...
— The Survey of Cornwall • Richard Carew

... friends!' echoed Smid, and at that ominous name the whole posse comitatus tried to look unconcerned, and found suddenly that their presence was absolutely required in an ...
— Hypatia - or, New Foes with an Old Face • Charles Kingsley



Words linked to "Posse comitatus" :   law, posseman, constabulary, posse, police, police force



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