justicelike

comparative more justicelike · superlative most justicelike

1. alternativeAlternative form of justice-like.

   The boys were badly scared by the austere and justicelike manner of ’Squire Eiler.

   1884 February 9, The Muncie Daily News, sixth year, number 236, Muncie, Ind.

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   JUSTICELIKE. adj. Resembling the character of a magistrate. / He by conversing with them is turned into a justicelike servingman. / [William] Shakespeare, Henry IV, p[ar]t. ii, a[ct]. iv, s[cene]. 3.

   1820, Richard Paul Jodrell, Philology on the English Language, London: […] for the Author, by Cox and Baylis

   It is a wonderful thing, to see the semblable coherence of his men’s spirits and his: They, by observing him, do bear themselves like foolish justices; he, by conversing with them, is turned into a justicelike serving-man; their spirits are so married in conjunction with the participation of society, that they flock together in consent, like so many wild geese.

   c. 1596–1599 (unhyphenated – 1826), William Shakspeare, King Henry IV. Part II. (The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, volume V, Chiswick: Charles Whittingham, […]), from the Chiswick Press, act V, scene I, page 367

   A cigarette started the blaze that caused the loss of a million and a half of dollars at Coney Island. That sounds consistent and poetic-justicelike.

   1907 August 1, The Topeka Daily Capital, volume XXXI, number 163, Topeka, Kan., page 4

   And in Washington, where the nine members of the Supreme Court are almost the only government officials who do not joust with the press corps, he maintained a strict justicelike silence when he appeared last week in the White House press room with Reagan — to the point, as one veteran journalist querulously put it, of “not even saying thank you” after his introduction.

   1987 July 5, Charlotte Grimes, “Bork Fits And Defies Judicial Stereotype”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 109, number 186, page 4A

   But when he tries to get obsessive CIA agent Brandt (Elias Koteas) in charge of the case to do something justicelike about it, Gordy’s brushed off.

   2002 February 7, Bob Strauss, “It might evoke Sept. 11 images, but ‘Damage’ isn’t anything special”, in Longview News-Journal, Longview, Tex., page 1C