genderert (jenderer)

One who engenders. genderle (jen'der-les), a. [ sex. ... Bp. Burnet, Hist. Reformation, an. 1551. The gendarmory and bands of horsemen. Strype , Memorials, an. 1551. The foreign mercenaries, the men-at-arms, or gendar R. W. Dizon , Hist. Church of Eng., xix. mery. 2. The armed police of France, consisting of mounted and unmounted gendarmes, first organized in 1790 as a standing militia for the enforcement of law and the preservation of order. The gendarmerie is recruited from picked men, generally from the regular army, and is organized into legions, departmental companies, and local lieutenancies, each of the last being divided into brigades of five or more men each. There are also special corps of maritime and colonial gendarmerie, the former for service at ports and naval stations. Detachments of gendarmerie accompany all armies in the field. The name is applied to similar organizations in some other countries. See gendarme , 2. He [Emperor Nicholas] formed a body of well-paid officers, called the Gendarmerie , who were scattered over the country, and ordered to report directly to his Majesty whatever seemed to them worthy of attention. D. M. Wallace, Ru ia, p. 207.