in posse
Americanadverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of in posse
First recorded in 1590–1600
Example Sentences
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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
The next class are your would-be aristocratic settlers, younger sons of younger sons, cousins of cousins, Union Barons, nephews' nephews of a Lord Mayor, or unprovided heirs in posse.
From Canada and the Canadians Volume I by Richard Henry Bonnycastle
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
My theory is that every soul is everywhere in posse, as the schoolmen said, but not anywhere in actu, except where it finds one of its bodies.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by David Eugene Smith
"How about the plaintiff?" said Blackman, turning a hesitating glance upon Judge Henderson, who seemed much relieved by what his opponent in fact and in posse had said.
From The Broken Gate A Novel by Emerson Hough
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