[See -ISM.] The practice of attorneys, or that attributed to the ‘rascally attorney’; unscrupulous cleverness. (Vituperative.)
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev. (1871), III. VII. v. 258. Vanish, then, thou rat-eyed Incarnation of Attorneyism. Ibid. (1864), Fredk. Gt., IV. II. Instinctively abhorrent of attorneyism and the swindler element.
1884. Sat. Rev., 28 June, 835/2. The peculiarity, however, of that kind of cleverness which … is called attorneyism, is that it frequently overreaches itself.
