Barrister
['bærɪstə] or ['bærɪstɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution.
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Definition
(n.) Counselor at law; a counsel admitted to plead at the bar, and undertake the public trial of causes, as distinguished from an attorney or solicitor. See Attorney.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Advocate (admitted to plead at the bar), counsellor, counsel, lawyer, attorney, SOLICITOR, attorney at law, limb of the law.
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Definition
n. one who is qualified to plead at the bar in an English or Irish law-court.—adj. Barristēr′ial.—n. Bar′ristership.—Revising barrister a barrister appointed annually by the English judges to revise the lists and settle who are the persons entitled to vote for members of parliament.
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Examples
- If as a set-off (excuse the legal phrase from a barrister-at-law) you would like to ask Tippins to tea, I pledge myself to make love to her. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was forced upon me,' said the gloomy Eugene, 'because it was understood that we wanted a barrister in the family. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He was a barrister by profession; a ladies' man by temperament; and a good Samaritan by choice. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister-at-law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Perhaps a little angry with himself, as well as with the barrister, Mr. Lorry bustled into the chair, and was carried off to Tellson's. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- A struggling barrister to think of matrimony! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I intend to go to town and eat my dinners as a barrister, since, they say, that is the preparation for all public business. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Although an infant barrister, he was a full-grown man. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He is what they call a barrister, with nothing to do. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The very barristers' wigs are ill-powdered, and their curls lack crispness. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Don't the barristers' wives talk about Circuit? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Greek democracy was, in fact, a sort of government by a swarm of hereditary barristers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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