legist

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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

I am pleased that a legist of your learning and authority should have pronounced such an opinion.

From The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas père, Alexandre

Therefore, on the next ensuing Sunday, let the divine be our godly Father Hippothadee, the physician our honest Master Rondibilis, and our legist our friend Bridlegoose.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

I am no legist, but I am convinced that, at least British, and I doubt not American, law would promptly annul a testatory clause so utterly unreasonable and unprecedented.’

From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew

But this was the end of the poetic reputation of Chapelain, “the legist of Parnassus”.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various