jurist
pronunciation
How to pronounce jurist in British English:
UK [ˈdʒʊərɪst]
How to pronounce jurist in American English:
US [ˈdʒʊrɪst]
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- Noun:
- a legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations
- a public official authorized to decide questions bought before a court of justice
Word Origin
- jurist (n.)
- mid-15c., "one who practices law," from Middle French juriste (14c.), from Medieval Latin iurista "jurist," from Latin ius (genitive iuris) "law," from PIE *yewes- "law," originally a term of religious cult, perhaps meaning "sacred formula" (compare Latin iurare "to pronounce a ritual formula," Vedic yos "health," Avestan yaoz-da- "make ritually pure," Irish huisse "just"). The Germanic root represented by Old English æ "custom, law," Old High German ewa, German Ehe "marriage," though sometimes associated with this group, seems rather to belong to PIE *ei- "to go." Meaning "a legal writer" is from 1620s.
Example
- 1. At its head is a respected islamist thinker and jurist , tariq al-bishri .
- 2. The other two mission members are hina jilani , a pakistani jurist and desmond travers , a retired irish army officer .
- 3. The eminently qualified former harvard law school dean who has never donned the judge 's robe will replace liberal jurist john paul stevens , who retired in june after 35 years on the bench .
- 4. Sir william blackstone , an 18th-century jurist who wrote a famous four-volume history of english law , described a man 's right to trial by his peers as " the principal bulwark of our liberties " .
- 5. Traditional societies of all kinds have been uncomfortable with corporations which , according to edward thurlow , an 18th-century british jurist , have " neither bodies to be punished , nor souls to be condemned " .