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jurist

[ joor-ist ]

noun

  1. a person versed in the law, as a judge, lawyer, or scholar.


jurist

/ ˈdʒʊərɪst /

noun

  1. a person versed in the science of law, esp Roman or civil law
  2. a writer on legal subjects
  3. a student or graduate of law
  4. (in the US) a lawyer


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Word History and Origins

Origin of jurist1

1475–85; < French juriste < Medieval Latin jūrist ( a ). See jus, -ist

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Word History and Origins

Origin of jurist1

C15: from French juriste, from Medieval Latin jūrista; see jus

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Example Sentences

It is a valiant, encyclopedic attempt of a star jurist to give voice(s) to an embattled philosophical position.

What responsible jurist would simply cancel trial because the defense decided not to do its job?

The conservative jurist, whose Supreme Court nomination was rejected in 1987, died Wednesday at 85.

Posner is generally believed to be the most prolific and most-quoted legal academic and jurist of his generation.

The Asterisk Rule contradicts everything I believe in as a jurist.

Whatever a jurist might have thought of these arguments, they had no effect on the Commons.

A third brother was a prominent jurist, also in Constantinople.

To the jurist, also, the question of the sexual life of the child is one of great importance.

He has executed a bust of the distinguished jurist, his father, for the Inner Temple, London.

More jurist than theologian, John defended the rights of the papacy with rigorous zeal and as rigorous logic.

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