JURIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jurist mean? 

• JURIST (noun)
  The noun JURIST has 2 senses:

1. a legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations

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

  Familiarity information: JURIST used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JURIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

jurist; legal expert

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

judge; jurist; justice

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"):

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

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)

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)

 Context examples 

I have already some acquaintance with the law—as a defendant on civil process—and I shall immediately apply myself to the Commentaries of one of the most eminent and remarkable of our English jurists.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And I am sure that you, Dr. Seward, humanitarian and medico-jurist as well as scientist, will deem it a moral duty to deal with me as one to be considered as under exceptional circumstances.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)