[ad. med. or mod.L. jūstitiāri-us, F. justiciaire ‘of or belonging unto Iustice’ (Cotgr., 1611).]
1. Pertaining to, or connected with, the administration of justice, or the office of a justice. (See also JUSTICIARY sb.2 1 attrib.)
1581. Mulcaster, Positions, xxxix. (1887), 207. They may spare number enough … to all martiall and militare affaires to all iusticiarie functions.
1632. Brome, North. Lasse, III. ii. Wks. 1873, III. 57. You have alwayes been so strict and terrible in your Iustitiarie courses.
1711. E. Ward, Vulgus Brit., VI. 77. Those Justitiary Fools Old Headboroughs and Constables.
1897. F. W. Maitland, Domesday & Beyond, 102. The demarcation of justiciary areas.
† 2. Theol. Pertaining to, or believing in, ‘the righteousness which is of the law’; self-righteous: see JUSTICIARY sb.1 5. Obs.
1615. T. Adams, Blacke Devill, 3. A justiciary, imaginary, self-conceited righteousnesse.
1630. Symmer, Rest Weary, v. B iij b. The proud Pharisee and Iusticiarie Hypocrite.
a. 1665. J. Goodwin, Filled w. the Spirit (1867), 114. Such a kind of Christian or believer who savours much of the justiciary and legal spirit.
