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justicer

American  
[juhs-tuh-ser] / ˈdʒʌs tə sər /

noun

Archaic.
  1. a judge or magistrate.


Etymology

Origin of justicer

1300–50; Middle English < Anglo-French (compare Old French justicier ); see justice, -er 2

Example Sentences

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Leave this jocund old justicer to me, and I'll answer for it that the king's enemies shall get a free pardon.

From The Wayfarers by Snaith, J. C.

False justicer, why hast thou let her scape?

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Bacon, Delia

And next after came the feers manly Danysh nacion, also of Grekis bene descendid, that the gret justicer king Knowt this land subdued and the Saxons' bloode.

From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown

False justicer, why hast thou let her 'scape?

From King Lear by Shakespeare, William

That working of an invisible judge, which we call Chance, "life's justicer," lays the villainy bare at the instant of its perfection.

From William Shakespeare by Masefield, John

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