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  • noun Plural form of juryman.

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Examples

  • The prosecution of Jesus by the swine-dealer of Gadara (for having damaged the pork business), with Jehovah on the bench and Satan as prosecuting attorney, and a number of well-known contemporaries as jurymen, is a fair example of Marquis's audacious method.

    Christopher Morley writes about Don Marquis 1937

  • It is evident that the jurymen are the mere catspaw of the big unscrupulous politicians who get all the profit and incur none of the odium.

    Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb

  • Bar's knowledge of that agglomeration of jurymen which is called humanity was as sharp as a razor; yet a razor is not a generally convenient instrument, and Physician's plain bright scalpel, though far less keen, was adaptable to far wider purposes.

    Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841

  • ( "jurymen," or rather as a bench of judges) to hear cases

    Hellenica 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

  • Bar’s knowledge of that agglomeration of jurymen which is called humanity was as sharp as a razor; yet a razor is not a generally convenient instrument, and Physician’s plain bright scalpel, though far less keen, was adaptable to far wider purposes.

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • "If I hadn't any more than the kind of jurymen we're usually up against,

    Prescott of Saskatchewan Harold Bindloss 1905

  • I think we are right to do so, and I think that 280 out of 501 Athenian jurymen were wrong when they voted to condemn Socrates.

    Handing Out Knives to Madmen Josiah Ober 2011

  • I was found guilty and awarded death by twelve jurymen staunch and true.

    Chapter 21 2010

  • A combination of jurymen, bodyguards, and clients cleared a path for Cicero through the Forum and up the Palatine Hill to his home.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • Everything in court always takes longer than one expects—questions have to be answered, statutes consulted, documents found—and it must have been at least an hour later that the court officials finally began handing out the wax voting tokens to the jurymen.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

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