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capiases

capiases is the plural of capias.

Meaning of capias

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

Questions about capiases

What is capiases the plural of?
Capiases is the plural of capias.

Words near capiases in the dictionary

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

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