legist
English
Etymology
From Middle French légiste, from Medieval Latin lēgista, from Latin lex (“law”). Compare legal.
Pronunciation
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Noun
legist (plural legists)
- One skilled in the law.
- 1484, William Caxton (translator), Aesop’s Fables, “The Wulf whiche made a fart” in The Fables of Aesop as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, edited by Joseph Jacobs, London: David Nutt, 1889, Volume II, p. 162,[1]
- Item my fader was no legist ne never knew the lawes
- ne also man of Justyce
- and to gyve sentence of a plee
- I wold entremete me
- and fayned my self grete Justycer
- but I knewe neyther
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- 1933, H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come, Book 3, Chapter 8,[2]
- There were a number of lawyers of the older type, men in sharp contrast and antagonism to the younger legists of the new American school.
- 1484, William Caxton (translator), Aesop’s Fables, “The Wulf whiche made a fart” in The Fables of Aesop as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, edited by Joseph Jacobs, London: David Nutt, 1889, Volume II, p. 162,[1]
- A writer on law, a legislator, a lawmaker
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 3:
- ‘King and kingdom,’ concurred d'Aguesseau, wisest of wise eighteenth-century legists, ‘form a single entity.’
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 3:
Translations
legislator — see legislator
one skilled in the law
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