justiciary

plural justiciaries

1. ScotlandcountablehistoricalA judgeship: a judge's jurisdiction, power, or office.

   Synonyms: judgeship, judicature, jurisdiction, bench, judgeship, judicature, justiceship

2. uncountableThe judiciary: a collective term for the court system or the body of judges, justices etc.

   Synonyms: bench, judiciary, bench, judicature, judicial, judiciary, judicial branch

3. One who administers justice
   1. countablehistoricaluncountableA judge or justice.

      Synonyms: justicer, justiciar, justicer, doomsman, judg, judge, justice, justicer

   2. countablehistoricaluncountableA magistrate.

      Synonyms: justicer, justiciar

   3. countablehistoricaluncountableA Chief Justiciar: the highest political and judicial officer of the Kingdom of England in the 12th and 13th centuries.

      Synonyms: justicer, justiciar, judiciar, justiciar

   4. countablehistoricaluncountableA justiciar: a high-ranking judicial officer of medieval England or Scotland.

      Synonyms: justicer, justiciar, justiciar

   5. countablehistoricaluncountableVarious equivalent medieval offices elsewhere in Europe.

      Synonyms: justicer, justiciar, justiciar

4. countableuncountableChristianityA believer in the doctrine (or heresy) that adherence to religious law redeems mankind before God.

   Synonyms: justiciar, legalist · Antonyms: antinomian, solifidian

comparative more justiciary · superlative most justiciary

1. obsoleteChristianityOf or relating to justification or redemption before God.

   Synonyms: see legalist

2. obsoleteChristianityOf or relating to the doctrine (or heresy) that adherence to religious law redeems mankind before God.

   Synonyms: see legalist

3. Judicial: of or relating to the administration of justice, judges, or judgeships.

   Synonyms: judicatory, judicatory, judicial, judiciary, juridic, juridical, juridicial

4. Of or relating to the High Court of Justiciary.
5. Of or relating to a circuit court held by one of the judges of the High Court of Justiciary.