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Justiciary

noun
1.
Formerly a high judicial officer.  Synonym: justiciar.
2.
The jurisdiction of a justiciar.





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... father, a headborough, who could ill keep him to school to learn his letters and the use of the globes, matriculated at the university to study the mechanics but he took the bit between his teeth like a raw colt and was more familiar with the justiciary and the parish beadle than with his volumes. One time he would be a playactor, then a sutler or a welsher, then nought would keep him from the bearpit and the cocking main, then he was for the ocean sea or to hoof it on the roads with the romany folk, kidnapping a squire's heir by favour of moonlight ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce


Words linked to "Justiciary" :   Britain, Great Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, UK, jurist, justice, U.K., jurisdiction, judge, United Kingdom


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