Meaning of manu militari | Babel Free

Definitions

By force of arms.

Medieval-Latin, New-Latin, not-comparable

Examples

“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 […]

“[…] 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 […]

“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.

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