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juristic

American  
[joo-ris-tik] / dʒʊˈrɪs tɪk /
Also juristical

adjective

  1. of or relating to a jurist or to jurisprudence; juridical.


juristic British  
/ dʒʊˈrɪstɪk /

adjective

  1. of or relating to jurists

  2. of, relating to, or characteristic of the study of law or the legal profession

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of juristic

First recorded in 1825–35; jurist + -ic

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Before that they always preferred to remain scholarly and juristic.

From Economist Nov. 16, 2017

Other secondary sources of Islamic law are juristic preference, public interest and custom.

From Salon Feb. 26, 2011

The men were all of Big Business color, but of technical shade: practical, juristic, masters of concrete planning rather than grandiose theorizing.

From Time Magazine Archive

He contends that the prevalent juristic conception of crime rests upon ignorance of nature, brute-life, savagery, and the gradual emergence of morality.

From A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists by Symonds, John Addington

Orthodox theology and the juristic system associated with it, especially that of Carpzov, justified this assumption in what is called the episcopal system.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.

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