Definitions

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

  • noun A specialist in law.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One skilled in the laws.

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

  • noun One skilled in the laws; a writer on law.

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

  • noun One skilled in the law; a writer on law.

Etymologies

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

[Middle English legiste, from Old French, from Medieval Latin lēgista, from Latin lēx, lēg-, law; see leg- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Middle French légiste, from Medieval Latin lēgista, from Latin lex ("law"). Compare legal.

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