capias

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈkapɪəs/
• (America) IPA: /ˈkeɪ.pi.əs/, /ˈkæ.pi.əs/

Noun

capias (plural capiases)

1. (legal) An arrest warrant; a writ commanding officers to take a specified person or persons into custody. [from 15th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:

     All which when Cupid heard, he by and by / In great displeasure wild a Capias / Should issue forth t'attach that scornefull lasse.

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