Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who has thorough knowledge and experience of law, especially an eminent judge, lawyer, or legal scholar. Also called jurisprudent.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who professes the science of law; one versed in the law, or more particularly in the civil law; one who writes on the subject of law.
- n. In universities, a student in the faculty of law.
Wiktionary
- n. a judge
- n. an expert in law or jurisprudence
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
- n. a legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French juriste, from Medieval Latin iūrista, from Latin iūs, iūr-, law; see yewes- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Conversely, senators never inquire as to whether a jurist is really the best choice among jurists, professors and lawyers who are widely cited as the intellectual leaders of their generation.”
“This illustrious jurist is equally distinguished as an author and explorer.”
“Manion, a great modern American jurist, is but echoing William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, possibly the freest of all states in its early decades, the most jealous and observant of human dignity, human values and human justice which modern history notes.”
“A fundamentalist church protesting a commencement address by Supreme Court Justice William Brennan hired a plane to tow a banner calling the jurist a "baby killer" and exhorting followers to pray for his death.”
“People are now beginning to openly question the institution of the velayat-e faqih, or the rule of the jurist, which is the Khomeinist system of governance that was implemented in 1979.”
“Oh, yes," said he, "a jurist is a man who knows something about the law of every country but his own.”
“Bushrod Washington, a member of the United States Supreme Court, and well known as a jurist of high attainments and great powers of mind, in the case of”
“Where there is such a legislation, it becomes, in actual application to it, a system of positive right and law; and he who is versed in the knowledge of this system is called a jurist or jurisconsult (jurisconsultus).”
“Now, the interesting thing is that she goes up there in the opening statement and tries to sound like Roberts and Alito, a Main Street conservative jurist, which is fascinating because what it says is that's what she and the”
“Fr.Z. points out that Kmiec appears to be misreading the term "jurist," which has a different meaning in the U.S. than it does in Europe.”
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