POLICED

Verb

policed

simple past tense and past participle of police

Anagrams

• cepolid, decipol, ploceid

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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