justicer

[ juhs-tuh-ser ]

noun

, Archaic.

1. a judge or magistrate.

Word History and Origins

Origin of justicer¹

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

Example Sentences

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

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

Here, as soon as we alighted down, Westerhall passed sentence on Andrew Herries, saying that he had due authority from the Council as King's Justicer for the parts about the Esk and Annan.

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But it is an insatiable thirst for gain, which I fear the Almighty Justicer will rebuke in some signal manner, perhaps in the emancipation of the slaves, and then the loss will be greater than all the gains reaped from the heart’s blood of our brave soldiers and the tears of the widow and orphan!

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Sit thou here, most learned justicer," says he, addressing the naked Edgar; "Thou, sapient sir, sit here.

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