special pleadern.1
/ˌspɛʃl ˈpliːdə/, U.S. /ˌspɛʃ(ə)l ˈplidər/ 1. Law. A member of an Inn of Court who specializes in drawing pleadings. Also figurative. Now historical.
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society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > member of Inns of Court
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1727 Brome's Rec. in Rythme (new ed.) Pref. 3 The Learned Tribe of Special Pleaders.
1791 Swinney's Birmingham & Stafford Chron. 21 July Mr. Graham, an eminent special pleader, of Lincoln's-Inn.
1804 Act 44 Geo. III c. 98 Sched. A Certificate to be taken out by every Special Pleader.
1870 Act 34 & 35 Vict. c. 77 Sched. Persons exempt from serving on juries... Serjeants, barristers-at-law, certificated conveyancers, and special pleaders if actually practising.
1891 Stamp Act §48 (a) The certificates of..conveyancers, special pleaders and draftsmen in Equity in England.
1901 H. Sutcliffe Willowdene Will i. 21 They showed clean hoofs to the highwayman's undischarged special pleaders [= pistols].
1998 D. Pool What Jane Austen ate & Charles Dickens Knew (new ed.) 109 Others might work for a while with a ‘special pleader,’ an inn member not admitted to the bar who drafted court papers, or ‘pleadings,’ as they were called.
2. A person who uses one-sided argumentation; a disingenuous or sophistical disputant. Cf. special pleading n. 2.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > false reasoner, sophist
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1796 Parl. Reg. 1781–96 XLIII. 300 In order, therefore, to remove the punctilio devised by this political special pleader, he would now comply with the forms of the House, and move that the particular passage be taken down.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. iv. iii. 28 All the arts of a thoroughbred special pleader.
1879 19th Cent. Oct. 596 Supposing Mr. Mallock's argument to be..that of a special pleader who uses weighted words even in preparing to open his discussion.
1936 N.Y. Woman 23 Sept. 33/2 There are a lot of answers, most of them vague. Rowland Stebbins, for instance, thinks the music does the trick. No go... Mr. Stebbins, the producer, is a special pleader.
2013 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 15 Aug. a13 ‘Level playing field’..is the favoured phrase of every corporate special pleader looking for protection from competition.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† special pleadern.2
Obsolete.
A special plea; an instance of one-sided argumentation.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > instance of
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1867 J. Turrill Diary 12 May in Oxfordshire Market Gardener (1993) 132 I can't think how he can remember conversations so well as he does do for a special pleader.
1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Sept. 7/2 Nor do we find it so cheap as is stated in Mr. Percy Lindley's special pleader for the cause of those interested in this particular tour.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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