Officer vs Capias - What's the difference?
officer | capias |
(senseid)One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or government organizations.
* , chapter=19
, title= (senseid)One who holds a public office.
(senseid)An agent or servant imparted with the ability, to some degree, to act on initiative.
(senseid)(colloquial, military) A commissioned officer.
(legal) An arrest warrant; a writ commanding officers to take a specified person or persons into custody.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:
*:All which when Cupid heard, he by and by / In great displeasure wild a Capias / Should issue forth t'attach that scornefull lasse.
As nouns the difference between officer and capias
is that officer is (one who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization)One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or government organizations while capias is an arrest warrant; a writ commanding officers to take a specified person or persons into custody.As a verb officer
is to supply with officers.officer
English
(wikipedia officer)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
