Definition of Alguacil

1. a Spanish arresting officer [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alguacil

algorithmization
algorithmize
algorithmized
algorithmizes
algorithmizing
algorithms
algors
algoscopy
algospasm
algotherapist
algotherapy
algous
algovascular
algraphic
algraphy
alguacil (current term)
alguacils
alguazil
alguazils
algum
algums
algæ
algæsthesis
alhaji
alhajia
alhajis
alhenna
alias
aliased
aliases

Literary usage of Alguacil

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Southwestern Historical Quarterly by Texas State Historical Association, Herbert Eugene Bolton, Eugene Campbell Barker, University of Texas at Austin Center for Studies in Texas History (1905)
"According to the laws of the Indies, the alguacil mayor was charged with the ... The alguacil mayor is an officer charged with the execution of sentences ..."

2. The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine (1851)
"This done, at about one o'clock in the morning, Rodrigo pet out with his servants, the alguacil Mayor of the Council, the dozen assistants newly nominated, ..."

3. Institutes of the Civil Law of Spain by Ignacio Jordán de Assó y del Río, Miquel de Manuel y Rodríquez (1825)
"GEORGE the FOURTH, Sfc. " To the alguacil Mayor of the Island of Trinidad ... And the said alguacil Mayor shall at the time of returning such summons, ..."

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