[ad. L. jūrisconsultus, f. jūris, gen. of jūs law + consultus skilled: see CONSULT sb.2 Cf. F. jurisconsulte (15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).] One learned in law, esp. in civil or international law; a jurist; a master of jurisprudence.
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., II. i. § 2. In divers particular sciences, as of the jurisconsults.
1676. W. Row, Contn. Blair’s Autobiog., xi. (1848), 365. Proper for jurisconsults, lawyers, and politicians.
1803. Edin. Rev., I. 367. More interesting than a municipal judge or juris consult.
1871. Morley, Condorcet, in Crit. Misc., Ser. I. (1878), 60. It was to Condorcet’s honour as a jurisconsult that he should have had so many scruples.
attrib. 1870. Lowell, Among my Bks., Ser. I. (1873), 115. We must give his argument in the … splendor of its jurisconsult latinity.
