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JURIST

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice

Synonyms:

judge; jurist; justice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("jurist" is a kind of...):

adjudicator (a person who studies and settles conflicts and disputes)

functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jurist"):

trier (one (as a judge) who examines and settles a case)

trial judge (a judge in a trial court)

recorder (a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs)

qadi (an Islamic judge)

praetor; pretor (an annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic)

ordinary (a judge of a probate court)

magistrate (a lay judge or civil authority who administers the law (especially one who conducts a court dealing with minor offenses))

justiciar; justiciary (formerly a high judicial officer)

doge (formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa)

Daniel (a wise and upright judge)

chief justice (the judge who presides over a supreme court)

alcalde (a mayor or chief magistrate of a Spanish town)

Instance hyponyms:

Samson ((Old Testament) a judge of Israel who performed herculean feats of strength against the Philistines until he was betrayed to them by his mistress Delilah)

Derivation:

jurisprudence (the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do)

jurisprudence (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations

Synonyms:

jurist; legal expert

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("jurist" is a kind of...):

expert (a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jurist"):

mufti (a jurist who interprets Muslim religious law)

Instance hyponyms:

Bentham; Jeremy Bentham (English philosopher and jurist; founder of utilitarianism (1748-1831))

Grotius; Hugo Grotius; Huig de Groot (Dutch jurist and diplomat whose writings established the basis of modern international law (1583-1645))

Holmes; Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (United States jurist noted for his liberal opinions (1841-1935))

John Marshall; Marshall (United States jurist; as chief justice of the Supreme Court he established the principles of United States constitutional law (1755-1835))

Harlan Fiske Stone; Stone (United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946))

Derivation:

jurisprudence (the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do)

jurisprudence (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Credits