POLICED
Verb
policed
simple past tense and past participle of police
Anagrams
• cepolid, decipol, ploceid
Source: Wiktionary
Po*liced", a.
Definition: Regulated by laws for the maintenance of peace and order,
enforced by organized administration. "A policed kingdom." Howell.
POLICE
Po*lice", n. Etym: [F., fr. L. politia the condition of a state,
government, administration, Gr. pur, puri. Cf. Policy polity,
Polity.]
1. A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city,
town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order,
cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and
prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations
of a city, incorporated town, or borough.
2. That which concerns the order of the community; the internal
regulation of a state.
3. The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or district,
whose particular duties are the preservation of good order, the
prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws.
4. (Mil.)
Definition: 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 a board, commissioned
to regulate and control the appointment, duties, and discipline of
the police.
– Police constable, or Police officer, a policeman.
– Police court, a minor court to try persons brought before it by
the police.
– Police inspector, an officer of police ranking next below a
superintendent.
– Police jury, a body of officers who collectively exercise
jurisdiction in certain cases of police, as levying taxes, etc.; --
so called in Louisiana. Bouvier.
– Police justice, or Police magistrate, a judge of a police court.
– Police offenses (Law), minor offenses against the order of the
community, of which a police court may have final jurisdiction.
– Police station, the headquarters of the police, or of a section
of them; the place where the police assemble for orders, and to which
they take arrested persons.
Po*lice", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Policed; p. pr. & vb. n. Policing.]
1. To keep in order by police.
2. (Mil.)
Definition: To make clean; as, to police a camp.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition