constable

Speech parts

1. constable - Noun

2. constable - Verb

3. Constable - Proper noun

Meaning

A high officer in the monarchical establishments of the Middle Ages.

An officer of the peace having power as a conservator of the public peace, and bound to execute the warrants of judicial officers.

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The parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made he governs the parish. John Selden

I have consistently made it very clear that I will vote a straight Democratic ticket, just like I do every election. From the local Constable to the President, I will be voting for every Democrat on the ballot. Henry Cuellar

I, born in Essex thirty-four Essentially sexual years ago, Stepped down, looked around, and saw I had been cast a little low In the social register For the friends whom I now know. Is a constable a mister? Bob's your uncle, even so. George Barker (poet)

Constable himself knew the value of such studies, for he rarely parted with them. He used to say of his studies and pictures that he had no objection to part with the corn, but not with the field that grew it. John Constable

Out the Old Woman jumped (of the window). And whether she broke her neck in the fall; or ran into the wood and was lost there...or taken up by a constable to the House of Correction for the vagrant she was I cannot tell. But the Three Bears never saw anything more of her. Joseph Jacobs

As I write, June 10th, 1861, John Constable stands next to Gainsborough as a painter of English landscape. Whoever passes him will paint well indeed. John Constable

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