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capias

/ˈkapɪəs/US/ˈkeɪ.pi.əs/

capias noun: an arrest warrant; a writ commanding officers to take a specified person or persons into custody.

Noun

capias (plural capiases)

  1. An arrest warrant; a writ commanding officers to take a specified person or persons into custody.
    • 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, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of capias

pluralcapiases

Origin of capias

Borrowed from Latin capiās (“you should seize, you are to seize”), from capiō (“to seize”).

Questions about capias

What does capias mean?
Capias means an arrest warrant; a writ commanding officers to take a specified person or persons into custody.
What part of speech is capias?
Capias is a noun.
How do you pronounce capias?
Capias is pronounced /ˈkapɪəs/ (UK).
What is the plural of capias?
The plural of capias is capiases.

Words near capias in the dictionary

  1. Caphtorim
  2. Caphtorite
  3. Caphtorites
  4. capi
  5. capi di tutti capi
  6. capias
  7. capiases
  8. capiat
  9. capiats
  10. capibara
  11. capibaras

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