legist

Example Sentences

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Critics are feared for the damage they can do to reputations, but they are probably at legist as dangerous when they turn kingmaker.

From Time Magazine Archive

Covarruvias, a Spanish legist, already quoted, agrees with Arnault Ferton. 

From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew

An astute legist can discover flaws in the best-drawn legal papers.

From Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Thebaud, Augustus J.

You are our president, and moreover a great legist.

From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Hugo, Victor

Where human statute is beginning to prize the general weal, the legist is of high account, and the priest paramount.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various