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legists

legists is the plural of legist.

Meaning of legist

Noun

legist (plural legists)

  1. One skilled in the law.
    • There were a number of lawyers of the older type, men in sharp contrast and antagonism to the younger legists of the new American school.1933 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Second Conference at Basra, 1978”, in The Shape of Things to Come, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, 3rd book (The...
  2. A writer on law; also, a lawmaker, a legislator.
    • ‘King and kingdom,’ concurred d'Aguesseau, wisest of wise eighteenth-century legists, ‘form a single entity.’2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 3

Questions about legists

What is legists the plural of?
Legists is the plural of legist.

Words near legists in the dictionary

  1. legislature
  2. legislatures
  3. legist
  4. legistical
  5. legistics
  6. legists
  7. legit
  8. legitbait
  9. legiteral
  10. legiterally
  11. legitim

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