manu militari

From Latin manū mīlitārī.

manu militari (not comparable)

1. (law) With military aid.
   • 1916, Bernard Miall, transl., Belgians Under the German Eagle‎^[1], translation of original by Jean Massart:

     As they did not present themselves their addresses were obtained, and one fine morning soldiers called at their houses and manu militari led them to the shops.

• "manu militari", in Latin Phrases and Maxims: Collected from the Institutional Writers..., John Trayner, ed. 1861, page 175.

Borrowed from Latin manū mīlitārī.

• IPA^(key): /ma.ny mi.li.ta.ʁi/

manu militari

1. manu militari
   • 2025 June 9, “Trump déploie des militaires en Californie”, in La Provence, →ISSN:

     […] les habitants s'opposant aux arrestations manu militari d'immigrés menées par la police fédérale de l'immigration, ICE.

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• “manu militari”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Latin manū mīlitārī.

manu militari

1. manu militari

Literally, “with a soldierly hand” or “by military power”, see manus.

manū mīlitārī (not comparable) (Medieval Latin, New Latin)

1. By force of arms.
   • 672 CE – 735 CE, Beda Presbyter, In Evangelium Lucae 1.2.5:

     Nam sicut imperatoris optimi provisione cuncta manu militari loca adversus hostilem muniuntur adventum […]

     For in this way, by the precaution of the greatest general, all places are secured by force of arms against enemy approach […]

   • 1081, Lambert of Hersfeld, Annales a. 1077:

     […] animo fixum tenere, ut leges ecclesiasticas manu militari debellaret […]

     […] to hold firm his spirit that he should vanquish the laws of the Church by force of arms […]

   • 1682, Caesarinus Fürstenerius [Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz], De jure suprematus ac legationis principum Germaniae, front matter:

     Suprematum ergo illi tribuo qui non tantum domi subditos manu militari regit, sed et qui exercitum extra fines ducere, et armis, foederibus, legationibus, ac caeteris juris gentium functionibus aliquid momenti ad rerum Europae generalium summam conferre potest.

     Thus I consider supremacy to pertain to him who not only rules over his domestic subjects by force of arms, but can lead an army beyond his borders, and can direct wars, pacts, embassies and the other offices of importance in the law of peoples at the summit of European affairs.

• "manu militari", in Latin Phrases and Maxims: Collected from the Institutional Writers..., John Trayner, ed. 1861, page 175

Borrowed from Latin manū mīlitārī.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmanu miliˈtaɾi/ [ˌma.nu mi.liˈt̪a.ɾi]
• Syllabification: ma‧nu mi‧li‧ta‧ri

manu militari

1. manu militari

• “manu militari”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024