Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a barrister.
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Examples
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New appointees to the High Court bench are, it turns out, embarrassingly white, male, public-schooly and barristerial.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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In this latter piece there are no less than thirty-five faces, all characteristic, showing the peculiar smug and pedantic cast of the barristerial lineaments.
Pickwickian Manners and Customs Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879
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I noted, as did many, the subtle barb, the sharp lance of barristerial disdain, when Mr Lodder put the point .. that some CPS lawyers were less than top drawer and had left the bar
Charon QC 2008
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They cannot believe that (as is too certain) great literary and even barristerial ability may co-exist with almost boundless silliness. "
Apologia pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845
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