Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A body of companions or attendants; an escort; specifically, in Roman and medieval times, a body of noble youth or comites about the person of a prince or chieftain.
- noun In old English law, a county or shire.
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- noun a group of
warriors ornobles accompanying aking or other leader
Etymologies
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Examples
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Friday's term was posse comitatus, which is defined as:
Define That Term #48 2006
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Friday's term was posse comitatus, which is defined as:
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The Crown was not only using soldiers as a police force (thus our enshrinement of posse comitatus), but were adding insult to injury by requiring the colonists to give the troops room and board.
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Bugs don't care about federalism, they are not constitutional "originalists," and they haven't read the literature on posse comitatus, either.
Jonathan D. Moreno: Why I Hope Contagion Is Catching Jonathan D. Moreno 2011
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In 1878, Congress passed and the president signed into law the Posse Comitatus Act, which made it unlawful to use the Regular Army as a posse comitatus or for the enforcement of laws, except when its use was specifically authorized by the U.S. Constitution or by an act of Congress.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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The Crown was not only using soldiers as a police force (thus our enshrinement of posse comitatus), but were adding insult to injury by requiring the colonists to give the troops room and board.
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Update: An investigation has begun as to who ordered the troops outside of their base in direct violation of the posse comitatus and insurrection acts.
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Hey, so now that we know that it was posse comitatus and not habeas corpus we were discussing WEEKS ago, can you stop being a dick?
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January 17th, 2010 at 6: 55 pm tombaker says: what time does the posse comitatus party start?
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The 2nd Klan 1910+ was allowed to thrive due to concerns about posse-comitatus. federal power and states rights issues.
Think Progress » Steele on serving as RNC chair: God has ‘placed me here for a reason.’ 2010
jaime_d commented on the word comitatus
"This trail was blazed back in the century's teens by a knickerbockered and tweed-capped comitatus from Yale, carrying on a tradition from Raphael Pumpelly and Percy Wallace and Steel MacKaye, from Thoreau and Burroughs: a journey with no purpose but to be in the wilderness, to be in its silence, to be together deep among its trees and valleys and heights." "Fifty-seven Views of Fujiyama" by Guy Davenport
January 19, 2010