| 单词 | petty constable |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPetty Constable Petty Constable n. (also Parish Constable) an officer of a parish or township appointed to act as conservator of the peace and to perform a number of public administrative duties in his district. (Abolished, except as incorporated in the County Police system, in 1872.)extracted from constablen.petty constable petty constable n. now historical an officer of a parish or township whose duties included being a keeper of the peace; a parish constable. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > law-enforcement or peace-officer > [noun] > constable > of a parish or tithing tithingmanlOE Petty Constable1472 tithemana1475 thirdborough?c1475 petty constable1574 parish officer1646 parish watcha1745 1574 B. Rich Right Exelent Dialogue Mercury & Eng. Souldier sig. Gvi Euerye petye Constable of euerye Parrysh within his cyrquet. 1629 Vse of Law 10 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light Whosoeuer is Lord of the Hundred Court..is to appoint in euery Village, a pettie Constable with a Tithingman to attend in his absence. 1736 G. Berkeley Disc. Magistr. in Wks. (1871) III. 430 From the supreme executor of the law down to a petty constable. 1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. iv. vii. 370 Papists were..prohibited from being high or petty constables. 1991 Past & Present Aug. 54 The high constables were instructed to send sets of articles to all petty constables. < as lemmas |
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