jurist
/ˈdʒʊərɪst
/noun
1An expert in or writer on law.In addition to the more traditional skills such as governance experts, economists, jurists and so on, it requires a variety of professional skills....
- The jurist and tax expert Giulio Tremonti, finance minister in Berlusconi's first government, who now heads the combined ministry of economics and finances, is of the same making.
- The position of the Federalist Party of President John Adams was that of the English jurist William Blackstone.
1.1North American A lawyer or a judge.Darrow, on the other hand, was at times condescending and contemptuous in his treatment of witnesses, jurists, opposing lawyers and even the judge....
- The new jurist, Superior Court Judge Trena Burger-Plavan, issued a ruling blocking the school district from moving ahead.
- In the normal course of things, a consensus of jurists, judges, and lawmakers limits the range of interpretations of the whole, neutralizing the most politically explosive readings.
Derivatives
juristic
/ adjective ...- In that respect, he stands in a different juristic position, at least for international law purposes, than if the finding of him being a genuine refugee had not been made.
- There are, we think, four or perhaps five distinct juristic grounds for finding that a guarantor is released or discharged by virtue of the failure of another guarantor to become liable.
- In the present state of juristic opinion, I would not extend the doctrine of stare decisis any further.
Origin
Late 15th century (in the sense 'lawyer'): from French juriste, medieval Latin jurista, from jus, jur- 'law'.
Rhymes
- strictured
- stride
- stridency
- strident
- stridently
- strider
- stridor
- stridulant
- stridulate
- stridulation
- stridulatory
- stridulous
- strife
- strigil
- strigose
- strikable
- strike
- strike a balance
- strike a blow for (or against)
- strike a blow for (or at/against)
- strike a chord
- strike a discordant note
- strike a light
- strike an attitude (or pose)
- strike at the root (or roots) of