Word Meanings - JURISCONSULT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A man learned in the civil law; an expert in juridical science; a professor of jurisprudence; a jurist.

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• PROFESSORY
  Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon.
• EXPERT
  Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery. A valiant and most expert
• PROFESSORIALISM
  The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
• PROFESSORIAT
  See PROFESSORIATE
• LEARN
  linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf.
• PROFESSOR
  1. One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church. "Professors
• PROFESSORSHIP
  The office or position of a professor, or public teacher. Walton.
• CIVILIZED
  Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated. Sale of conscience and duty in open market is not reconcilable with the present state of civilized society. J. Quincy.
• CIVILIZE
  1. To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine. Yet blest that fate which did his arms dispose Her land to civilize, as to subdue. Dryden 2. To admit as suitable to a civilized state.
• JURISPRUDENCE
  The science of juridical law; the knowledge of the laws, customs, and rights of men in a state or community, necessary for the due administration of justice. The talents of Abelard were not confined to theology, jurisprudence, philosophy. J. Warton.
• JURIDICALLY
  In a juridical manner.
• CIVIL
  1. Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state. 2. Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community. England was very
• CIVILITY
  1. The state of society in which the relations and duties of a citizen are recognized and obeyed; a state of civilization. Monarchies have risen from barbarrism to civility, and fallen again to ruin. Sir J. Davies. The gradual depature
• CIVILIST
  A civilian. Warbur
• LEARNER
  One who learns; a scholar.
• EXPERTNESS
  Skill derived from practice; readiness; as, expertness in seamanship, or in reasoning. Syn. -- Facility; readiness; dexterity; adroitness; skill. See Facility.
• LEARNED
  Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory. The learnedlover lost no time. Spenser. Men of
• CIVILIZABLE
  Capable of being civilized.
• JURIST
  One who professes the science of law; one versed in the law, especially in the civil law; a writer on civil and international law. It has ever been the method of public jurists to Burke.
• CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
  The substitution of business principles and methods for political methods in the conduct of the civil service. esp. the merit system instead of the spoils system in making appointments to office.
• HALF-LEARNED
  Imperfectly learned.
• INCIVIL
  Uncivil; rude. Shak.
• UNEXPERTLY
  In an unexpert manner.
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
• INEXPERT
  1. Destitute of experience or of much experience. Milton. 2. Not expert; not skilled; destitute of knowledge or dexterity derived from practice. Akenside.
• PRESCIENCE
  Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
• DECIVILIZE
  To reduce from civilization to a savage state. Blackwood's Mag.
• UNCIVILTY
  In an uncivil manner.
• JURIDIC; JURIDICAL
  Pertaining to a judge or to jurisprudence; acting in the distribution of justice; used in courts of law; according to law; legal; as, juridical law. "This juridical sword." Milton. The body corporate of the kingdom, in juridical construction, never
• UNCIVILITY
  Incivility.
• OMNISCIENCE
  The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Dryden.
• UNSCIENCE
  Want of science or knowledge; ignorance. If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion. Chaucer.
• CONSCIENCE
  consciens, p.pr. of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- + scire 1. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness. The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. Denham. 2. The faculty, power,