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Expert in ancient law
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legist
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A Legist , from the Latin lex 'law', is any expert or student of law. It was especially used since the Carolingian dynasty for royal councillors who advised the monarch in legal matters, and specifically helped base its absolutist ambitions on Roman Law ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Legist \Le"gist\ (l[=e]"j[i^]st), n. [F. l['e]giste, LL. legista, fr. L. lex, legis, law. See Legal .] One skilled in the laws; a writer on law. --Milman. --J. Morley.
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One skilled in the law 2 A writer on law, a legislator, a lawmaker
Usage examples of legist.
On the whole, the achievements of his principate had been admirable, but the labors of peace to which the best of his advisors had ingeniously directed him, those great projects of the architects and legists of his reign, had always counted less for him than a single victory.
On the side of the triumvirs nobody knows twinges of conscience, neither Barras, a condottiere open to the highest bidder, and who understands the value of blows, nor Reubell, a sort of bull, who, becoming excited, sees red, nor Merlin de Douai, the terrible legist, lay inquisitor and executioner in private.