JUSTICIARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does justiciary mean? 

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

1. formerly a high judicial officer

2. the jurisdiction of a justiciar

  Familiarity information: JUSTICIARY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUSTICIARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Formerly a high judicial officer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

justiciar; justiciary

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

judge; jurist; justice (a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The jurisdiction of a justiciar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

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

jurisdiction (in law; the territory within which power can be exercised)

 Context examples 

But I was a little comforted by a message from his majesty, that he would give orders to the grand justiciary for passing my pardon in form: which, however, I could not obtain; and I was privately assured, that the empress, conceiving the greatest abhorrence of what I had done, removed to the most distant side of the court, firmly resolved that those buildings should never be repaired for her use: and, in the presence of her chief confidents could not forbear vowing revenge.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

This lord, in conjunction with Flimnap the high-treasurer, whose enmity against you is notorious on account of his lady, Limtoc the general, Lalcon the chamberlain, and Balmuff the grand justiciary, have prepared articles of impeachment against you, for treason and other capital crimes.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)