Lawyer
['lɔːjə;'lɒɪə] or ['lɔjɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice.
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Definition
(n.) One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters. It is a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advocates.
(n.) The black-necked stilt. See Stilt.
(n.) The bowfin (Amia calva).
(n.) The burbot (Lota maculosa).
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Counsellor, counsel, advocate, attorney, SOLICITOR, barrister, limb of the law, attorney-at-law.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Counsellor, attorney, counsel, advocate
ANT:Client
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Unserious Contents or Definition
For a young woman to dream that she is connected in any way with a lawyer, foretells that she will unwittingly commit indiscretions, which will subject her to unfavorable and mortifying criticism. See Attorney.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
Typist: Robinson
Unserious Contents or Definition
One who defends your estate against an enemy, in order to appropriate it to himself.
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Examples
- Well, you know, Standish, every dose you take is an experiment-an experiment, you know, said Mr. Brooke, nodding towards the lawyer. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But as to listening to what one lawyer says without asking another--I wonder at a man o' your cleverness, Mr. Dill. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The judges chosen were Mr. Oliver and an able lawyer: both coincided in my opinion: I carried my point. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I forget his name; a sort of a lawyer as I guessed, because he would talk about the 'parties' every few minutes. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I never remember feeling the presence of the lawyer to be more unwelcome than I felt it at that moment. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She went out to America when she was young, and lived in the town of Atlanta, where she married this Hebron, who was a lawyer with a good practice. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I made a mistake; we are all liable to mistakes; I won't do so any more, and I'll become such a lawyer as is not often seen. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I am your old lawyer and your old friend, and I may remind you, I am sure, without offence, of the possibility of your marrying Sir Percival Glyde. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The first step to take in this investigation, the lawyer proceeded, is to appeal to Rachel. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She turned to the lawyer, and, pointing to Mr. Ablewhite, asked haughtily, What does he mean? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Then young Mr. Wansborough is a lawyer, I suppose? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Yesterday, also, Mr. Blake had the lawyer's answer. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Whether he could rush to the next assizes, and proclaim himself a lawyer? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Another lawyer would have drawn up the deed if I had refused to undertake it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Would Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite hold to his engagement, after what his lawyer had discovered for him? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I can telegraph my lawyers. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The lawyers have twisted it into such a state of bedevilment that the original merits of the case have long disappeared from the face of the earth. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The clepsydra became in Greece a useful instrument to enforce the law in restricting loquacious orators and lawyers to reasonable limits in their addresses. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- How do your lawyers live, your politicians, your intriguers, your men of the Exchange? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- There are several grades of lawyers' clerks. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Those men in Washington, most of them lawyers, are so educated that they are practically incapable of meeting a new condition. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Us London lawyers don't often get an out, and when we do, we like to make the most of it, you know. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The lawyers told me that there were no relatives alive, and that I was justly entitled to spend the money, so that is how I became rich. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He had sent for his lawyers, and probably changed something in his will. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- So now I am ready even for the lawyers. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You have to go among lawyers to see this idolatrous process in its most perfect form. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The vestry-clerk is a sort of an appointment that the lawyers get, and if there's any business to be done for the vestry, why there they are to do it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He had told Mr Rugg that he knew what lawyers and agents were, and that he would not submit to imposition. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The fees annually paid to lawyers and attorneys, amount, in every court, to a much greater sum than the salaries of the judges. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is let off in sets of chambers now, and in those shrunken fragments of its greatness, lawyers lie like maggots in nuts. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Editor: Matt