Definition of Constabularies

1. Noun. (plural of constabulary) ¹

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Definition of Constabularies

1. constabulary [n] - See also: constabulary

Lexicographical Neighbors of Constabularies

conspurcate
conspurcated
conspurcates
conspurcating
const correctness
constable
constableries
constablery
constables
constableship
constableships
constabless
constablesses
constablewick
constablewicks
constabularies (current term)
constabulary
constabulatories
constabulatory
constancies
constancy
constancy phenomenon
constant
constant-velocity
constant-width font
constant coupling
constant field equation
constant function
constant functions
constant infusion pump

Literary usage of Constabularies

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

1. Political Systems in Transition: War-time and After by Charles Ghequiere Fenwick (1920)
"Organization of Reserve Militia and State constabularies. In order to meet the emergency caused by the transfer of the state militia into the national army ..."

2. The History of Scotland, from the Union to the Abolition of the Heritable by John Struthers (1828)
"... and heritable bail- leries, and all heritable constabularies, other than the office of high constable of Scotland, ..."

3. Report to the General Board of Health: On a Preliminary Inquiry Into the by Thomas Webster Rammell, Great Britain General Board of Health (1850)
"... passages and places within the town of Darlington, and the ^several parishes, townships, and constabularies of Darlington, ..."

4. New Jersey as a Colony and as a State: One of the Original Thirteen by Francis Bazley Lee (1902)
"But while the Legislature thus defined these sub-divisions it must be remembered that they were practically established, by custom, as constabularies. ..."

5. The Manuscripts of the Corporations of Southampton and King's Lynn by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1887)
"... constabularies in place of those wanting, and that whatever the Mayor Alderman twenty-four or the greater part of them and the twenty-seven persons as ..."

6. Early Yorkshire Schools by Arthur Francis Leach (1899)
"The 12 archers were given 2OS each, contributed by 12 divisions of the town called constabularies, named from the chief streets, viz. ..."

7. Town Life in the Fifteenth Century by Alice Stopford Green (1894)
"The electorates of the constabularies seldom numbered more than twenty people and sometimes as few as twelve, and the whole body which elected the new ..."

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