Word Meanings - POLICEMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A member of a body of police; a constable.

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• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• POLICE POWER
  The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers
• MEMBERSHIP
  1. The state of being a member. 2. The collective body of members, as of a society.
• POLICE
  Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison. 5. The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state Police commissioner, a civil officer, usually one of
• POLICED
  Regulated by laws for the maintenance of peace and order, enforced by organized administration. "A policed kingdom." Howell.
• MEMBERED
  Having legs of a different tincture from that of the body; -- said of a bird in heraldic representations. (more info) 1. Having limbs; -- chiefly used in composition.
• MEMBER
  To remember; to cause to remember; to mention.
• CONSTABLE
  sense 1), OF. conestable, F. conn, LL. conestabulus, constabularius, comes stabuli, orig., count of the stable, master of the horse, equerry; comes ount + L. stabulum stable. See Count a 1. A high officer in the monarhical establishments of the
• CONSTABLESHIP
  The office or functions of a constable.
• CONSTABLERY
  1. The constabulary. 2. The distrit or jurisdiction of a constable.
• POLICEMAN
  A member of a body of police; a constable.
• CONSTABLEWICK
  The district to which a constable's power is limited. Sir M. Hale.
• MISREMEMBER
  To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.
• REMEMBER
  re- + memorare to bring to remembrance, from memor mindful. See 1. To have come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect;
• NONMEMBERSHIP
  State of not being a member.
• REMEMBERABLE
  Capable or worthy of being remembered. -- Re*mem"ber*a*bly, adv. The whole vale of Keswick is so rememberable. Coleridge.
• FOREREMEMBERED
  Called to mind previously. Bp. Montagu.
• DISMEMBER
  1. To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone. By whose hands the blow should be struck
• DISREMEMBER
  To fail to remember; to forget.
• CAMEMBERT; CAMEMBERT CHEESE
  A kind of soft, unpressed cream cheese made in the vicinity of Camembert, near Argentan, France; also, any cheese of the same type, wherever made.
• UNMEMBER
  To deprive of membership, as in a church.
• DISMEMBERMENT
  The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m The Castilians would doubtless have resented the dismemberment of the unwieldy body of which they formed the head. Macaulay.
• REMEMBERER
  One who remembers.
• NONMEMBER
  One who is not a member.