legist

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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

You are our president, and moreover a great legist.

From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Hugo, Victor

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 Kite, Elizabeth S.

An astute legist can discover flaws in the best-drawn legal papers.

From Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Thebaud, Augustus J.

But this was the end of the poetic reputation of Chapelain, “the legist of Parnassus”.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various