Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One learned in the law; a jurist.
  • adjective Jurisprudential.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Versed in the law; understanding law.
  • noun A person learned in the law; one versed in jurisprudence.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Understanding law; skilled in jurisprudence.
  • noun rare One skilled in law or jurisprudence.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One skilled in law or jurisprudence.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Obsolete French, back-formation from French jurisprudence, jurisprudence, from Late Latin iūrisprūdentia; see jurisprudence.]

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Compare French jurisprudent.

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Examples

  • This is not the tradition of the Iranian people, but it is standard operating procedure for Iran's supposedly supreme "jurisprudent," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

    ModerateVoters.org 2009

  • That call constitutes a direct repudiation of the doctrine of velayat-e faqih rule of the jurisprudent, which makes Iran's clerical elite the ultimate arbiters of politics and justice.

    A Green Manifesto for Iran Ilan Berman 2011

  • Montazeri's book about velayat-e faqih (the governance of the supreme jurisprudent), in which a high-anking cleric controls all aspects of life in the country, provided the core doctrinal basis for what has become the Iranian theocracy.

    The Ayatollah’s Inspiration 2009

  • After the revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took the Shiite concept of the Rightly Guided Imam and created the idea of Vilayet-i-faqih, which means the rule of the jurisprudent.

    Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf: What President Obama Should Say About Iran 's Election 2009

  • Mark Hildesly, a seventeenth-century English barrister, left behind a manuscript full of religious exhortations and overstuffed poetry celebrating the sober character “jurisprudent.”

    Archive 2008-05-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

  • Ayatollah Sistani can disagree with the concept of "velayat-e-faqi", rule of the jurisprudent as it is applied in Iran, but he has never suggested that politics be free from Islam, which is a reason why Iraqi politicians feel the need to receive his blessings for any major decision.

    Hooman Majd: Flattening Iran 2008

  • Asking himself whether “exerting of books or babies are best becoming a jurisprudent,” he came down in favor of books.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

  • The doodles made Hildesly more real than the “jurisprudent” poems soberly singing of babies forgone.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

  • Because there is no papacy or episcopate in Islam, any Tom, Dick or Ali can pronounce himself a jurisprudent and give law to the world.

    In Their Own Words: The Gospel According to Al Qaeda 2007

  • Death to those who oppose the rule of the jurisprudent.

    CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2007 2007

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