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Public At Large.
Public: The whole body politic, or the
aggregate of the citizens of a state,
nation, or municipality. The inhabitants of
a state, county, or community. In one sense,
everybody, and accordingly the body of the
people at large; the community at large,
without reference to the geographical limits
of any corporation like a city, town, or
county; the people.
At Large: Not limited
to any particular place, district, person,
matter, or question; open to discussion or
controversy; never precluded. Free;
unrestrained; not under corporal control, as
a ferocious animal (Wolverine) so free from
restraint as to be liable to do mischief.
Fully; in detail; in an extended form.
Public at large does not mean all the
people, nor most of the people, nor very
many of the people of a place, but so many
of them as contradistinguishes them from a
few. Accordingly, it has been defined or
employed as meaning the inhabitants of a
particular place; pertaining to a state,
nation, or whole community; proceeding from,
relating to, or affecting the whole body of
people or an entire community; all the
inhabitants of a particular place; the
people of the neighborhood.
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