comitatus
1
9.9
- noun
- /kəˈmɪtəs/
- Archaic
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- This last act, undercutting Posse Comitatus, enables the president to introduce martial law.
Examples
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A few local farmers who showed up at a Warriors supporters' meeting identified themselves as members of a militant, anti-big government group, the Posse Comitatus.
Academic text (2002) -
The audience of Beowulf was an Anglo-Saxon society that held loyalty to one's band, or comitatus, as the highest social value.
Academic text (1994) -
What if Posse Comitatus, the federal law that prohibits our military from occupying our streets, were no longer in effect?
Blog text (16) -
Posse Comitatus.
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Posse Comitatus further alienated the only two groups that could have formally staged a rather immediate resistance to a domestic insurgency.
Blog text (24) -
"Posse Comitatus?" Starhtz hazarded.
Fiction book (1996) -
No mention either of the Posse Comitatus, which she'd heard had meetings at the old gun club along the Missouri River, and she knew a couple of ushers and a deacon who belonged to it.
Fiction book (1999) -
Living amid the quiet towns and farms of northern Wisconsin and Michigan are members of white supremacist paramilitary groups, the Posse Comitatus for one, and the possibility existed that these boys belonged to such a group.
Fiction book (1997) -
The core of lle's host was the thanes of his own "gesith" (what the Roman writer Tacitus called a "comitatus"), the sworn "hearth warriors" of his household.
Blog text (15) -
In early Germanic societies, a noble could always rely on his comitatus to defend his home and honor.
Synonyms
∞
2.0
Soldiers who work together as a group in an army
327
1.0
A large group of people organized to do one job
98
3.2
A group of soldiers organized to fight or carry out military tasks
60
7.0
A group of people from a larger organization, like soldiers or representatives
5
7.0
A group of about 300 to 600 soldiers in the ancient Roman army
1
8.5
A group of soldiers who serve together in the army
A group of local people gathered by a sheriff to catch criminals
Compounds
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Comitatus originally meant a group of companions who went with and protected a leader, because it comes from the Latin comes meaning 'companion'. So comitatus can mean the loyal followers or warriors who support an important person.