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Shakespearean
Love's Labours Lost' A constable.
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Shakespearean
Much Ado About Nothing' A Constable.
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English and French (Châtelain)
English and French (Châtelain) : status name for the governor or constable of a castle, or the warder of a prison, from Norman Old French chastelain (Latin castellanus, a derivative of castellum ‘castle’).A priest named Châtelain from Paris is documented in Quebec city in 1636, and a family is documented in Trois Rivières, Quebec, in 1722.
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English
English : occupational name for the law-enforcement officer of a parish, from Middle English, Old French conestable, cunestable, from Late Latin comes stabuli ‘officer of the stable’. The title was also borne by various other officials during the Middle Ages, including the chief officer of the household (and army) of a medieval ruler, and this may in some cases be the source of the surname.Americanized spelling of Dutch Constapel, an occupational name for the chief gunner aboard a ship or in the garrison of a fort.
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Shakespearean
Measure for Measure' A simple constable.
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English (mainly Sussex)
English (mainly Sussex) : habitational name from Pelham in Hertfordshire, so called from the Old English personal name PÄ“otla + Old English hÄm ‘homestead’.The manor of Pelham in Hertfordshire, England, was held by Walter de Pelham in the reign of Edward I (1272–1307). His descendants became constables of Pevensey Castle, Sussex, and were so influential that their badge, the buckle, is seen in at least eleven of the county’s churches, and as a decoration on iron chimney-backs in Sussex farmhouses. Various branches of the family were ennobled and their titles include earl of Chichester and earl of Yarborough. The family also once held the dukedom of Newcastle and the marquessate of Clare. Peter Pelham (b. c. 1695), an engraver, emigrated to Boston after 1728, and was stepfather to the artist John Singleton Copley.
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English
English : occupational name for a medieval court official, from Middle English bedele (Old English bydel, reinforced by Old French bedel). The word is of Germanic origin, and akin to Old English bēodan ‘to command’ and Old High German bodo ‘messenger’. In the Middle Ages a beadle in England and France was a junior official of a court of justice, responsible for acting as an usher in a court, carrying the mace in processions in front of a justice, delivering official notices, making proclamations (as a sort of town crier), and so on. By Shakespeare’s day a beadle was a sort of village constable, appointed by the parish to keep order.
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The wife of a constable.
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The district to which a constable's power is limited.
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The district or jurisdiction of a constable.
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An under constable.
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A petty constable.
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A constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house.
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An officer who bears a staff tipped with metal; a constable.
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The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable.
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The constabulary.
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A member of a body of police; a constable.
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A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes cruel orders of a superior without protest or pity; -- sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc.
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The office or functions of a constable.
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A peace officer; an under constable.
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Of or pertaining to constables; consisting of constables.
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The collective body of constables in any town, district, or country.
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A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff.
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A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape.
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To give notice to; to inform by notice; to apprise; as, the constable has notified the citizens to meet at the city hall; the bell notifies us of the time of meeting.
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A tithing, or division, in the Isle of Man, in which there is a coroner, or chief constable. The island is divided into six sheadings.
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An armed constable; also, a government servant or courier.