comitat (komitat)

Same as comitatus, 2. The village of Egyed in the comitat of Edenburg. C. O. Müller , Manual of Archæol. (trans.), § 230. comitatet (kom'i-tāt), v. t. [L. comitatus, an escort: see comitatus .] To accompany. With Pallas young the king a ociated, Achates kinde Æneas com it a ted . Vicars , Æneid. comitatus (kom-i-tā'tus), n.; pl. comitatus . [L. comitatus, an escort, an attending multitude, later an imperial escort, ML. the followers of any feudal lord, etc.; com it- ), a companion, etc.: see count2.] 1. A body of companions or attendants; an escort; specifically, in Roman and medieval times, a body of noble youth or comites about the person of a prince or chieftain. They were equipped, trained, and supported by the chief, and in return fought for him in war, and were bound in honor not to desert him. The comitatus , or personal following of the king or ealdorman. Stubbs, Const. Hist., § 37. There seems to be no doubt that the first aristocracy springing from kingly favour consisted of the Comitatus or Companions of the King. Maine, Early Hist. of Institutions, p. 138. 2. In old Eng. law, a county or shire.-Po e comitatus. See po e. comites, n. Plural of comes . No rogue at a comitia of the canters Did ever there become his parent's robes Better than I do these. 1124 or falling sickne : so called because, if any one was seized with it during the comitia or public a emblies in Rome, the meeting was broken up, the omen being considered bad. So Melancholy turned into Madnes; Into the Palsie, deep-affrighted Sadnes; Th' Il-habitude into the Dropsie chill, And Megrim grows to the Comitial -Ill. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Furies. Our [a es'] liver, hoofs or bones being reduced to powder are good, as the naturalists note, against the epilepsy, or comitial -sickne e. Howell, Parly of Beasts, p. 26. comity (kom'i-ti), n. [L. comita(t-)s, It is not so much a matter of comity and courtesy as of paramount moral duty. Story , Conflict of Laws, § 33. 2. In international law , law , that courtesy between states or nations by which the laws and institutions of the one are recognized, and in certain cases and under certain limitations given effect to, by the government of the other, within its territory. Comity, as generally understood, is national politene and kindne . But the term seems to embrace also those tokens of respect which are due between nations on the ground of right. Woolsey , Introd. to Inter. Law, § 24. A comity which ought to be reciprocated exempts our Consuls in all other countries from taxation to the extent thus indicated. Lincoln , in Raymond, p. 420. Judicial comity. See judicial . =Syn. Amenity, suavity, politene , consideration. comma (kom'ä), n.; pl. commata (-a-tä) in senses 1 and 2, commas in the other senses. [= D. G. Dan. Sw. komma = F. comma = Sp. coma = Pg. It.comma , L.comma , κόμμα , a short clause of a sentence, that which is knocked off, a piece, the stamp of a die, κόπτειν , strike, cut off.] 1. In anc . gram . and rhet ., a group of a few words only; a phrase or short clause, forming part of a colon or longer clause.-2. In anc. pros.: (a) A fragment or smaller section of a colon; a group of a few words or feet not constituting a complete metrical series. (b) The part of a dactylic hexameter ending with, or that beginning with, the cesura; also, the cesura itself. -3t. A clause. In the Moresco catalogue of crimes, adultery and fornication are found in the first comma . L. Add is on, Western Barbary, p. 171. command The darke commanded vs then to rest. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's True Travels, I. 189. Specifically-2. To have or to exercise supreme power or authority, especially military or naval authority, over; have under direction or control; determine the actions, use, or course of: as, to command an army or a ship. Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love. Shak ., Macbeth, v. 2. Thou hast commanded men of might; Command thyself, and then thou art right.