Posse
['pɒsɪ] or ['pɑsi]
Definition
(n.) See Posse comitatus.
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Definition
n. power: possibility.—Posse comitatus the power of the county: the body of men entitled to be called out by the sheriff to aid in enforcing the law.
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Examples
- The teacher presents in actuality what the pupil represents only in posse. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It's the cause of much suffering, but it's a consolation to know I posses it, when I wake up in the night. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Airy, in whose posses sion Adams's results had remained for months unpublished and unheeded, wrote Leverrier: You are to be recognized beyond doubt as the predictor of the planet's place. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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