Word Meanings - POLICIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Relating to the police.
Related words: (words related to POLICIAL)
- RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - RELATIVELY
In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts. - 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 - RELATE
1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy - RELATIVITY
The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge. - 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. - RELATRIX
A female relator. - RELATIONAL
1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris. - RELATED
See 4 (more info) 1. Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree. 2. Standing in relation or connection; as, the electric - RELATOR
A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed. (more info) 1. One who relates; a relater. "The several relators of this history." Fuller. - RELATER
One who relates or narrates. - RELATION
1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. relation doth well figure them. Bacon. 2. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended - RELATEDNESS
The state or condition of being related; relationship; affinity. Emerson. - RELATIVENESS
The state of being relative, or having relation; relativity. - RELATIONIST
A relative; a relation. - RELATIVE
Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun. (more info) 1. Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject. I'll - POLICEMAN
A member of a body of police; a constable. - PRELATIST
One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott. - PRELATISM
Prelacy; episcopacy. - PRELATIZE
To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey. - MISRELATION
Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall. - IRRELATIVE
Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence - CORRELATIVENESS
Quality of being correlative. - IRRELATION
The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation. - PRELATEITY
Prelacy. Milton. - CORRELATE
To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related. Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor. - PRELATY
Prelacy. Milton. - UNPRELATED
Deposed from the office of prelate. - PRELATESHIP
The office of a prelate. Harmar.