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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



... recourse to the introduction of these alien elements into the system on the occasion of any slight disturbance. The tongue was a little coated, and mercury must be given; the skin was a little dry, and the patient must take antimony. It was like sending for the constable and the posse comitatus when there is only a carpet to shake or a refuse-barrel to empty. [Dr. James Johnson advises persons not ailing to take five grains of blue pill with one or two of aloes twice a week for three or four months in the year, with half a pint of compound decoction of ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)



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



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