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Noun jurist has 2 senses
  1. jurist, legal expert - a legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations
    --1 is a kind of expert
    --1 has particulars:
     mufti; Bentham, Jeremy Bentham; Holmes, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.; Hughes, Charles Evans Hughes; Jay, John Jay; Marshall, John Marshall; Rehnquist, William Rehnquist, William Hubbs Rehnquist; Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone; Vinson, Frederick Moore Vinson; Warren, Earl Warren
  2. judge, justice, jurist, magistrate - a public official authorized to decide questions bought before a court of justice
    --2 is a kind of official, functionary; adjudicator
    --2 has particulars:
     chief justice; Daniel; doge; justice of the peace; justiciar, justiciary; ordinary; praetor, pretor; qadi; recorder; stipendiary, stipendiary magistrate; trial judge; trier; Samson
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