justiciar

From Late Latin justitiarius and justiciarius (“justiciar, judge, justice [of the peace]; judiciary, related to justice”), from Latin iūstitia (“justice”) + -āria (“-ary”). As a translation of various Continental European offices, via Middle French justicier, Spanish justiciero, justicia mayor, etc.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒʌsˈtɪsi.ɑː(ɹ)/

justiciar (plural justiciars)

1. (historical) One who administers justice, particularly:

   Synonyms: justicer, justiciary

   1. (historical) A high-ranking judicial officer of medieval England or Scotland.

      Synonym: justiciary

   2. (historical) A justice: a high-ranking judge.

      Synonyms: justice; see also Thesaurus:judge

   3. (historical) A Chief Justiciar: the highest political and judicial officer of the Kingdom of England in the 12th and 13th centuries.

      Synonyms: justiciary, Chief Justiciary, Capital Justiciary; Chief Justiciar, Capital Justiciar

   4. (historical) Various equivalent medieval offices elsewhere in Europe.

      Synonym: justiciary

2. (Christianity, theology, rare) A justiciary: a believer in the doctrine (or heresy) that adherence to religious law redeems mankind before God.

   Synonyms: justiciary, legalist

   Antonyms: antinomian, solifidian

• Capital Justiciar
• Chief Justiciar
• justiciarship

• justicar

• Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "judiciar, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2013.