jurisprudent

English

Etymology

Compare French jurisprudent.

Adjective

jurisprudent (comparative more jurisprudent, superlative most jurisprudent)

1. Understanding law; skilled in jurisprudence.
   • 1875 April, “Nebulæ”, in The Galaxy, volume 19, page 580:

     For if belligerent rights were worthy to be gravely discussed by conferences and commissions of very jurisprudent gentlemen, why shall not expectorant rights — never until now discussed or settled, but existing only in the great common or unwritten law of usage—be once for all clearly confirmed, settled, and defined?

   • 1878, George Birkbeck Norman Hill, Dr. Johnson, His Friends and His Critics, page 82:

     'Adieu!' he says, 'I am going to my tutor's lectures on one Puffendorf, a very jurisprudent author as you shall read on a summer's day.'

2. Pertaining to jurisprudence.
   • 1985, La Mét[h]odologie du droit, page 97:

     By this, I wanted to point out how subtle and conscientious our judgment of jurisprudent ideas should be, and what kind of historic approach we have to cherish towards them.

   • 2009, John Parry, Criminal Mental Health and Disability Law, Evidence and Testimony, page 51:

     The jurisprudent psychology analysis is designed to ensure that the results of clinical and forensic interventions for each individual comport with the law's emphasis on principles of justice and fairness.

   • 2018, Scott Veitch, Emilios Christodoulidis, Marco Goldoni, Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts:

     It is much more prudent and therefore also much more jurisprudent to endeavour to understand what really happens in law and legal theory.

   • 2020, Alberto Rueda, The Moai who Dreamed of a Jukebox:

     “And you can't be drinking alcohol on the community stairs, either,” he added, very jurisprudent.

Noun

jurisprudent (plural jurisprudents)

1. Someone skilled in law or jurisprudence.
   • 2013, Lawrence Davidson, Islamic Fundamentalism: An Introduction:

     Nobody should imagine that the fitness of the jurisprudent for rule raises him to the status of prophecy or of Imams because our discussion here is not concerned with status and rank but with the actual task.

   • 2017, Martin P. Golding, Legal Reasoning, Legal Theory and Rights, page 191:

     Both the official and the jurisprudent can make mistakes; they can go wrong.

   • 2022, Christos Marneros, Human Rights After Deleuze: Towards an An-archic Jurisprudence:

     According to Shaun McVeigh, the persona of the jurisprudent 'is presented in terms of dissent from the (major) jurisprudences of rationalist legal traditions and state authority.