[Ads-l] Antedating of "Police"

[Shapiro, Fred]

police, n. (OED, II.5.a., 1798)

1780 John Green A Plan for the Better Regulation of Mariners in the Merchants Service xxii (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)

More particularly, will the error of legislation, appear, in suffering a continuance; and not establishing a marine police, as redundant in wisdom, and equity.

Fred Shapiro



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