单词 | juryman |
释义 | jurymann. a. A man serving on a jury; a member of a jury: = juror n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > jury > [noun] > member(s) of jury juror1377 assizer1436 jurier1486 empanel1569 juryman1579 the twelve men1589 questrymanc1690 venire man1781 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 389 To make him a lawfull Iewrie man. 1652 W. Leach (title) The bribe-takers of jury-men..discovered and abolished. 1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke i, in Misc. Poems 360 The hungry Judges soon the Sentence sign, And Wretches hang that Jury-men may Dine. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. xxiii. 380 Here therefore a competent number of sensible and upright jurymen..will be found the best investigators of truth. 1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. 24 The distinction of the judge of law from the judge of fact or juryman was derived from Italian sources many hundred years later. b. As rendering of Greek δικαστής dicast n. or of Latin judex. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > jury > [noun] > member(s) of jury > in ancient Greece or Rome heliast1807 dicast1820 juryman1879 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar iii. 26 All cases of importance, civil or criminal, came before courts of sixty or seventy jurymen. 1881 S. H. Butcher Demosthenes (1893) i. 10 There were still jurymen eager to serve and litigants ready to supply cases. c. With qualification, as grand-juryman, a member of a grand jury. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > jury > [noun] > member(s) of jury > member of specific type of jury grand-juryman1599 jury-woman1805 attainor1865 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 3 I'le besworne hee was a grande iurie man in respect of me. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. ii. 15 They haue beene grand Iurie men, since before Noah was a Saylor. View more context for this quotation 1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 196 Naming all the Grand Jury-mens Names without their Additions. 1881 E. Robertson in Encycl. Brit. XIII. 786/1 The qualification of the grand jurymen is that they should be freeholders of the county,—to what amount appears to be uncertain. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1579 |
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