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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Jurist

/jo͝or'-əst/ · Ju·rist · IPA /ˈd͡ʒəɹ.ɪst/
01 n. One who professes the science of law; one versed in the law, especially in the civil law, such as a judge, lawyer, or legal scholar; a writ…
  1. 1.
    One who professes the science of law; one versed in the law, especially in the civil law, such as a judge, lawyer, or legal scholar; a writer on civil and international law.
    “It has ever been the method of public jurists to draw a great part of the analogies on which they form the law of nations from the principles of law which prevail in civil community.” Burke.