a. [f. L. jūrisprūdēntia + -AL.] Of or pertaining to jurisprudence; rarely of persons: JURISPRUDENT B.
1775. C. Johnston, Pilgrim, II. x. 255. Three civil professions called liberal … the sacerdotal, the juris-prudential, and the medical; or, as they are called here, the Gown, the Long-robe, and the Faculty.
1819. Blackw. Mag., IV. 750/1. The doctor cannot be suspected of having any jurisprudential learning himself.
1852. S. Bailey, Disc. Var. Subj., 100. It [relevant] had long been a jurisprudential word in Scotland.
1884. W. S. Lilly, in Contemp. Rev., Feb., 251. The great jurisprudential ideas which we find in the literature of the decadent Empire.
Hence Jurisprudentialist, a writer on jurisprudence, a legal practitioner. Jurisprudentially adv., in relation to jurisprudence.
1802–12. Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid., IX. III. vii. As to the jurisprudentialist, his most common state is, perhaps, a sort of middle state between the two [impostor and dupe].
1828. Examiner, 16 Nov., 737/1. Viewing it jurisprudentially.
