juristn.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde i. v. 26 They..become aduocates and iuristes for to amasse and gadre alway money.

1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. i. 7 As wel auncyent nobles as iuristes and other.

1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xvii. 78 The Parisians..are by nature both good Jurers, and good Jurists.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 375 All the ablest jurists and advocates of the Tory party had, one after another, refused to comply.

1905 E. B. Holt tr. H. Münsterberg Americans iv. 88 Sixty-one of them [sc. members of the Senate] were jurists... As to the jurists, they are not men who are still active as attorneys or judges.

1931 W. G. McAdoo Crowded Years iii. 41 A well-known jurist at that time was Judge Trewhitt.

1936 S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XLV. 188 Even more important is the divergence between the English and American uses of jurist, which is not restricted in the United States to the meaning of an expert in the science of law. It is commonly applied to any one who has obtained the qualifications required for legal practice.

1973 N. W. Schur British Self-taught 211 In America jurist is synonymous with judge. Unfortunately not all jurists (in the American sense) are jurists (in the English sense).

a1626 F. Bacon Advt. Holy Warre in Wks. (1861) VII. 36 This is not to be measured by the principles of jurists.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. vii. 254 In respect to civil suits, all the foreign jurists agree.

1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. vii. 415 The doctrines of the Mohammedan jurists are somewhat at variance on this matter.

1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xiii. 177 The body of admirable laws which are known to jurists as the ‘Leges Juliæ’.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 514 This person [John Jones] being entred and settled in a jurists place, he applyed himself to the study of the civil law.

1758 W. Blackstone Study of Law in Comm. Laws Eng. (1809) I. 15 One of the three questions to be annually discussed at the act by the jurist-inceptors shall relate to the common law.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 17 Oct. 1/3 Downing provided the Senior Jurist in the years 1882, 1883, and 1884.