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

The distrit or jurisdiction of a constable. [Obs.]

The office or functions of a constable.

The wife of a constable. [Obs.]

The district to which a constable's power is limited. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

An inferior officer of justice in Spain; a warrant officer; a constable. Prescott.

Fig.: A spy or detective; a constable.

The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable. Spelman.

give place. Gay. You think this madness but a common case. Pope. I am in case to justle a constable, Shak.

loit. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney. Court of chivalry, a court formerly held before the lord high constable and earl marshal of England as judges, having cognizance of contracts and other matters relating to deeds of arms and war. Blackstone.

Of or pertaining to constables; consisting of constables.

up or over, to or into. Thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand. Gen. xl. 13. The constables have delivered her over. Shak. The exalted mind All sense of woe delivers to the wind. Pope.

at was the difference It was a contention in public. Shak. Away therefore went I with the constable, leaving the old warden and the young constable to compose their difference as they could. T. Ellwood.

A petty constable. [Eng.]

ject altogether the peculiar tenets of the high-church school. See Broad Church. -- High constable (Law), a chief of constabulary. See Constable, n., 2. -- High commission court,a court of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in England erected and united to the regal power by Queen Elizabeth in

An armed constable; also, a government servant or courier. [Turkey]

ment, consisting of the lords spiritual and temporal. -- Lord high chancellor, Lord high constable, etc. See Chancellor, Constable, etc. -- Lord justice clerk, the second in rank of the two highest judges of the Supreme Court of Scotland. -- Lord justice general, or Lord president, the highest in rank of the judges…

tes cruel orders of a superior without protest or pity; -- sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc. Thackeray. With unabated ardor the vindictive man of law and his myrmidons pressed forward. W. H. Ainsworth.

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. The President of the United States has notified the House of Representatives that he has approved and signed the act. Journal of the Senate, U. S.…

A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape. [Obs.] Chapman.