legist

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legist (plural legists)

One skilled in the law.
- 1933 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Second Conference at Basra, 1978”, in The Shape of Things to Come, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, 3rd book (The World Renascence: The Birth of the Modern State), page 309:
  There were a number of lawyers of the older type, men in sharp contrast and antagonism to the younger legists of the new American school.
A writer on law; also, a lawmaker, a legislator.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 3:
  ‘King and kingdom,’ concurred d'Aguesseau, wisest of wise eighteenth-century legists, ‘form a single entity.’

legislator — see legislator

one skilled in the law

legist

legist: one skilled in the law
- 1484, William Caxton (translator), Aesop’s Fables, “The Wulf whiche made a fart” in The Fables of Aesop as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, edited by Joseph Jacobs, London: David Nutt, 1889, Volume II, p. 162,^[1]
  Item my fader was no legist ne never knewe the lawes, ne also man of Justyce, and to gyve sentence of a plee, I wold entremete me, and fayned my self grete Justycer, but I knewe neyther, a, ne, b,
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legist m or n (feminine singular legistă, masculine plural legiști, feminine and neuter plural legiste)

Declension of legist