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Definition of Constabularies
1. constabulary [n] - See also: constabulary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Constabularies
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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