justiciar
Noun
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Noun
justiciar (plural justiciars)
- (historical) One who administers justice, particularly:
- (historical) A high-ranking judicial officer of medieval England or Scotland.
- (historical) A justice: a high-ranking judge.
- (historical) A Chief Justiciar: the highest political and judicial officer of the Kingdom of England in the 12th and 13th centuries.
- (historical) Various equivalent medieval offices elsewhere in Europe.
- (Christian, theology, rare) A justiciary: a believer in the doctrine (or heresy) that adherence to religious law redeems mankind before God.
- (One who administers justice generally) justicer, justiciary
- (A high-ranking judicial officer of medieval England) justiciary
- (A judge of a superior court) See justice
- (The chief judicial officer of medieval England) justiciary, Chief Justiciary, Capital Justiciary; Chief Justiciar, Capital Justiciar
- (Proponent of a theological doctrine) See legalist
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