单词 | sub-constable |
释义 | sub-constablen. historical in later use. An officer immediately subordinate to a constable; an under-constable; a deputy constable. Also occasionally as a title or form of address.In later use chiefly with reference to the Royal Irish Constabulary, in which the office of sub-constable existed as an official rank from the early 19th cent. until 1883. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > law-enforcement or peace-officer > [noun] > constable sub-constable1512 beagle1559 harman-beck1567 John?1576 clarigold1597 officer1597 constable1600 redbeard1607 Robin Hoga1682 Moabite1699 night-magistrate1699 1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII c. 19 §6 Preceptes to the Constables Hedbouroghes Thirdbouroghes Subconstables Tythingmen Borsalders. 1559 Acte of Subsedye in Anno Primo Reginæ Elizabethe at Parl. xx. f. vii The same Commyssyoners shall make their precept or preceptes to the Constables, Subconstables, Baylyffes, or other offycers of such Hundredes, Wapentakes, Townes, or other places aforesayde. 1672 E. Ashmole Inst. Order of Garter iv. 135 The following year this King assigned Iames de Dorchester, Sub-Constable of the Castle, to keep a Controll upon all the Provisions whatsoever. 1757 W. Smith Hist. Province N.-Y. i. 198 Albany..has also a Sheriff, Town Clerk, Chamberlain, Clerk of the Markets, one High Constable, three Sub-Constables, and a Marshal. 1788 Gentleman's & London Mag. June 335/1 We..appoint John Chaplain, of Darrow, yeoman, a Protestant, to act as sub-constable within the district of Faffadeneen. 1814 Act 54 Geo. III c. 131 §6 To appoint, for the Aid and Support of any such Chief Magistrates,..a Clerk, and also a Chief Constable, and any Number of Sub Constables, not exceeding Fifty in the whole. 1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 25/2 The police..in 1836, consisted of..155 chief constables of the first and 59 of the second class; 1232 constables; 6233 subconstables. 1886 M. Brophy Sketches Royal Irish Constabulary i. 7 Sub-Constable D—— was a scion of a family that were ruined chiefly by horse-racing. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 4 July 1/2 Sir Thomas Echlin..served..as sub-constable and constable in the ranks of the Royal Irish Constabulary. 1966 Studia Hibernica 6 30 The chief constables were paid £50 a year and the sub-constables £10 (sometimes less). 1995 Sunday Tel. 26 Feb. 1/5 The patrolling dilemma has forced senior officers to consider approving a new rank of sub-constable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1512 |
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