justicar

plural justicars · alternative Justicar

1. fantasyA representative and enforcer of the king or ruler's justice.

   As the justicar strode over to the knights, he saw Deothen shaking his head.

   2013, Matt Forbeck, Marked for Death: The Lost Mark, →ISBN

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   Spaceport Official: I wanted to be a justicar when I was young. Every asari does I guess.

   2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Illium

   Until the justicars got there, she was the only thing standing between the Black Sun gangsters and the relatively innocent residents of Gnawer's Roost.

   2011, Sean Williams, Fatal Alliance, →ISBN

   At the edge of the square fifty justicars marched around a lone towering figure.

   2015, Shane Michael Murray, The Orc of Many Answers, page 179

plural Justicars

1. alternativeAlternative form of justicar.

   If the Nosferatu's demesnes are indeed as vast as reports claim, the Justicars reason, any sort of lawbreaking could take place down there.

   1995, Robert Hatch, Clanbook, Nosferatu: here there be monsters, page 36

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   The Justicars had been used by the Magi Guild of Academia to oversee the actions of Magi for thousands of years. The Catholic church had recognized them in 1220 A.D. creating the Holy Order of Justicars after Pope Honorius III was attacked by a Purifier Death Squad. Pope Honorius III knew that open support was not possible so he secretly created the Order of Justicars as a cover for the Guild and signed documents proclaiming the Svalbard Islands the headquarters for the Magi Guild Triad for thousands of years, as their headquarters.

   2007, Auroroa Dvora, Jacketed Obsession, →ISBN, pages 47–48

   The creature cursed and grunted as the Justicar hacked his sword into its armored hide. The thing's flesh jarred like teak, almost denting the Justicar's blade.

   2013, Paul Kidd, White Plume Mountain, →ISBN