sb. and a. Obs. [f. med.L. constabulāt-us the office of a constable + -ORY.]
A. sb. ? = CONSTABLERY.
a. 1715. Burnet, Own Time, II. 518. A great deal was said … upon the point of jurisdiction and of the Exemption of a Constabulatory.
B. adj. = CONSTABULARY a.
1830. J. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., XXVII. 539. To prevent any effervescence in the minds of the Contributors to this Particular Conflagration, a strong Constabulatory Force will keep the Ring.
