in posse
Americanadverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of in posse
First recorded in 1590–1600
Example Sentences
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She wanted to know what I had wired to the Seraph, and as husbands and wives in posse should have no secrets from each other, I showed her the draft of my cable.
From The Sixth Sense A Novel by Stephen McKenna
We cannot speak of things which exist or things which once were, as if they were something in posse.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman
It is an omelet that cannot be made without breaking eggs, not only eggs in esse, but also eggs in posse.
From The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 by Basil L. (Basil Lanneau) Gildersleeve
I thought it best that she should know how and where he was spending so much money in esse as well as money in posse.
From A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike by Charles King
To the latter question Gilbert replies that in the darkness color exists in posse, but not in esse.
From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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