Meaning of vi et armis | Babel Free

Definitions

By force, violently; specifically, causing damage to a person or property.

not-comparable

Examples

“Crabtree […] was so much incensed at his breach of punctuality, that he ordered him to be denied; and when the young gentleman forced his entrance into his chamber, vi & armis, would not open his mouth; but assuming the most grim contraction of his countenance, sat in sullen silence […].”

“It was current in the nursery that he was a black man who expelled us vi et armis.”

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