legist
Example Sentences
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Critics are feared for the damage they can do to reputations, but they are probably at legist as dangerous when they turn kingmaker.
From Time Magazine Archive
A learned legist, he had begun his career as judge of the superior council of Alsace, and the chancellor Maupeou, in quest of magistrates who could be bought, had raised him to his new functions.
From Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence by Elizabeth S. Kite
Therefore, on the next ensuing Sunday, let the divine be our godly Father Hippothadee, the physician our honest Master Rondibilis, and our legist our friend Bridlegoose.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux
I am pleased that a legist of your learning and authority should have pronounced such an opinion.
From The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas père
M. Raybaud thought it would seem wise to repeat an old impertinence of the legist, and that may serve him for an excuse.
From What is Property? by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
