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jurist
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun jurist has 2 senses
- jurist(n = noun.person) legal expert - a legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations; Array is a kind of expert
- jurist(n = noun.person) judge, justice - a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice; Array is a kind of adjudicator, functionary, official
has particulars: mufti, bentham, jeremy bentham, grotius, hugo grotius, huig de groot, holmes, oliver wendell holmes jr., john marshall, marshall, harlan fiske stone, stone
Derived forms noun jurisprudence1, noun jurisprudence2
has particulars: alcalde, chief justice, daniel, doge, justiciar, justiciary, magistrate, ordinary, praetor, pretor, qadi, recorder, trial judge, trier, samson
Derived forms noun jurisprudence1, noun jurisprudence2
CIDE DICTIONARY
One who professes the science of law; one versed in the law, especially in the civil law, such as a judge, lawyer, or legal scholar; a writer on civil and international law. [1913 Webster]
"It has ever been the method of public jurists to draw a great part of the analogies on which they form the law of nations from the principles of law which prevail in civil community."
OXFORD DICTIONARY
jurist, n.
1 an expert in law.
2 a legal writer.
3 US a lawyer.
1 an expert in law.
2 a legal writer.
3 US a lawyer.
Derivative
juristic adj. juristical adj.
Etymology
F juriste or med.L jurista f. jus juris law
ROGET THESAURUS
jurist
Lawyer
N lawyer, attorney, legal counsel, counsel, counsellor, counsellor at law, attorney at law, jurist, legist, civilian, pundit, publicist, juris consult, legal adviser, advocate, barrister, barrister at law, King's or Queen's counsel, K, C, Q, C, silk gown, leader, sergeant-at-law, bencher, tubman, judge, bar, legal profession, bar association, association of trial lawyers, officer of the court, gentleman of the long robe, junior bar, outer bar, inner bar, equity draftsman, conveyancer, pleader, special pleader, solicitor, proctor, notary, notary public, scrivener, cursitor, writer, writer to the signet, S, S, C, limb of the law, pettifogger, vakil, legal beagle, legal secretary, legal assistant, law student, learned in the law, at the bar, forensic, esquire, esquired, banco regis.
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