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legist|ˈliːdʒɪst|
[ad. F. légiste (recorded from 13th c.), ad. med.L. lēgista, f. lēg-, lēx law: see -ist.]
One versed in the law (cf. jurist); spec. one of a group of legal philosophers in the early Han dynasty in China. Also attrib. or as adj.
1484Caxton Fables of æsop v. x, My fader was no legist ne neuer knewe the lawes. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 195 Ulpianus, the floure of legistis in his dayis. 1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie To Gentl. Inner Temple, The honorable assembly of the Inner Temple with all the gentlemen, students and professed Legists in the same. 1616Bacon Let. to King 12 Feb. Lett. & Life (1869) V. 242 As legists, they will agree in magnifying that wherein they are best. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 474 He had a Legists place and took the degrees in the Civil Law. 1821Edin. Rev. XXXV. 169 We shall..bring together the names of some of the great legists of Britain. 1858M. Pattison Ess. (1889) II. 327 An able legist..he brings into literature the habits and prepossessions of his position. 1895Rashdall Universities II. 568 Ten were to be Legists, and seven Canonists. 1956A. Toynbee Historian's Approach to Relig. ii. 22 In China the uncompromisingly rationalistic Legist school of philosophy was eventually driven off the field by a Confucian school which tempered its Rationalism with a conservative respect for a pre-rationalist tradition. 1957Chinese Culture (Taipei) I. i. 77 As we know, School of the Legists prevailed during the earlier Han dynasty. 1965New Statesman 24 Dec. 1004/1 Eventually the Romans did adopt that model but not, unfortunately, ‘deliberately planned and executed in advance by an act of far-sighted and well-calculated statesmanship’ (as Princes Hien and Hiao had done in China with the help of a ‘sophist of the Legist school, Shang Yang’). |