Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. A person under oath; specifically, an officer of the nature of an alderman, in certain municipal corporations in England.
2. The memorandum or certificate at the end of an asffidavit, or a bill or answer in chancery, showing when, before whom, and (in English practice), where, it was sworn or affirmed.
Comprising an oath; as juratory caution. [Little used.]
Judge Roget’s Thesaurus §967
N. judge, justice, justiciar, justiciary, chancellor, justice of assize, judge of assize, recorder, common sergeant, puisne judge, assistant judge, county court judge, conservator of the peace, justice of the peace, j, p, court, magistrate, police magistrate, beak*, his worship, his honor, his lordship, jury, twelve men in a box, lord chancellor, lord justice, master of the rolls, vice chancellor, lord chief justice, chief baron, mr. justice, associate justice, chief justice, baron, baron of the exchequer, jurat, assessor, arbiter, arbitrator, umpire, referee, referendary, revising barrister, domesman, censor, barmaster, ephor, grand juror, grand juryman, juryman, talesman, archon, tribune, praetor, syndic, podesta, mollah, ulema, mufti, cadi, kadi, rhadamanthus, litigant
V. adjudge, try a case, try a prisoner
Adj. judicial
Phr. "a daniel come to judgment"
No Bible verses found for "jurat".