capias
English
WOTD – 20 April 2012
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin capiās (“you should seize, you are to seize”), from capiō (“to seize”).
Noun
capias (plural capiases)
- (law) An arrest warrant; a writ commanding officers to take a specified person or persons into custody. [from 15th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
- All which when Cupid heard, he by and by / In great displeasure wild a Capias / Should issue forth t'attach that scornefull lasse.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
Usage notes
- The term is mostly used in the singular.
Latin
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