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Constable . ( Of the lat. )( comes stabuli , count of the stable). 1. m. In the middle ages, the man who exercised the first dignity of the militia. 2. m. Mar. Man makes as a sergeant in the marine artillery brigades. Constable of Castile. 1. m. That was the position of Constable until he became a honorary title, linked as in Aragon, Navarre, and Naples.