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- noun Plural form of
alcade .
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Examples
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The alcades examinadores also were given the right to try anyone for medical "crimes, excesses, and transgressions."
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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A century later, John I of Castile (1379 – 90) named "alcades mayores examinadores" in conjunction with the "médico primero" of the royal household to form a body that examined such aspirants.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Then when the truce was made they chose out twelve alcades on the one part, and twelve on the other, who should decide in what manner he was bound to perform combat who impeached a council.
The Junior Classics — Volume 4 William Patten 1902
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On the morrow the four and twenty alcades marked out the lists upon the sand beside the river, and in the middle of the lists they placed
The Junior Classics — Volume 4 William Patten 1902
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This should apply to complaints sent by the alcalde-mayor against the clergyman; the alcades-mayor are not so abject that they would not have even then their share of the fault.
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And they chose out twelve alcades on the one part, and twelve on the other, who should decide in what manner he was bound to perform combat who impeached a Council.
Chronicle of the Cid Various 1808
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On the morrow before the hour of tierce, the four and twenty alcades marked out the lists upon the sand beside the river, at the place which is called Santiago, and in the middle of the lists they placed a bar, and ordained that he who won the battle should lay hand on the bar, and say that he had conquered: and then they appointed a term of nine days for the combatants to come to those lists which had been assigned.
Chronicle of the Cid Various 1808
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And the four and twenty alcades accorded concerning what was the law in this case; and two of them who were held the most learned in these things arose, the one being a Castillian and the other of Zamora, and said that they had found the law as it was written to be this: That whosoever impeacheth the Council of a town which was a bishop's seat, must do battle with five in the field, one after another; and that after every combat there should be given unto him fresh arms and horse, and three sops of bread, and a draught either of wine or of water, as he chose.
Chronicle of the Cid Various 1808
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