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ca⋅pi⋅as

  [key-pee-uhs, kap-ee-]
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–noun Law.
a writ commanding an officer to take a specified person into custody.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME < L: lit., you are to take, subj. 2nd person sing. of capere
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ca·pi·as   (kā'pē-əs)   
n.   Law
A warrant for arrest.

[Middle English, from Medieval Latin capiās, from Latin, second person sing. present subjunctive of capere, to seize (from the first word of the writ); see kap- in Indo-European roots.]
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