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Webster 1913 Edition


Legist

Le′gist

(lē′jĭst)
,
Noun.
[F.
légiste
, LL.
legista
, fr. L.
lex
,
legis
, law. See
Legal
.]
One skilled in the laws; a writer on law.
Milman.
J. Morley.

Webster 1828 Edition


Legist

LE'GIST

,
Noun.
One skilled in the laws.

Definition 2024


legist

legist

English

Noun

legist (plural legists)

  1. One skilled in the law
  2. A writer on law, a legislator, a lawmaker
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 3:
      ‘King and kingdom,’ concurred d'Aguesseau, wisest of wise eighteenth-century legists, ‘form a single entity.’

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