legist
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French légiste, from Medieval Latin lēgista, from Latin lex (“law”). Compare legal.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlegist (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.’
Translations
editlegislator — see legislator
one skilled in the law
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Anagrams
editMiddle English
editNoun
editlegist
- 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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- 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]
Romanian
editEtymology
editAdjective
editlegist m or n (feminine singular legistă, masculine plural legiști, feminine and neuter plural legiste)
Declension
editDeclension of legist
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | legist | legistă | legiști | legiste | ||
definite | legistul | legista | legiștii | legistele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | legist | legiste | legiști | legiste | ||
definite | legistului | legistei | legiștilor | legistelor |
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