Word Meanings - CONSTABLEWICK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to CONSTABLEWICK)

• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• LIMITARY
  1. Placed at the limit, as a guard. "Proud limitary cherub." Milton. 2. Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc. "The limitary ocean." Trench. The poor, limitary creature calling himself a man of the world. De Quincey.
• DISTRICT
  Rigorous; stringent; harsh. Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.
• LIMITANEOUS
  Of or pertaining to a limit.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• LIMITATE
  Bounded by a distinct line.
• LIMITOUR
  See 2
• LIMITEDNESS
  The quality of being limited.
• LIMITATION
  1. The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. They had no right to mistake the limitation . . . of their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible
• LIMITED
  Confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted; as, our views of nature are very limited. Limited company, a company in which the liability of each shareholder is limited by the number of shares he has taken, so that he can not be called
• POWERLESS
  Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect. -- Pow"er*less*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*less*ness, n.
• DISTRICTION
  Sudden display; flash; glitter. A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.
• 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
• LIMIT
  A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic a differentia. (more info) 1. That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country;
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• REDISTRICT
  To divide into new districts.
• IMPOWER
  See EMPOWER
• PRELIMIT
  To limit previously.
• DELIMITATION
  The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
• 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
• DISEMPOWER
  To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.
• ILLIMITATION
  State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.