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juryman|ˈdʒʊərɪmən|
[f. jury + man.]
A man serving on a jury; a member of a jury: = juror 1.
1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 389 To make him a lawfull Iewrie man. 1652W. Leach (title) The Bribe-Takers of Jurymen discovered. 1712–14Pope Rape Lock iii. 22 The hungry Judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jury-men may dine. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. xxiii. 380 Here therefore a competent number of sensible and upright jurymen..will be found the best investigators of truth. 1861Pearson Early & Mid. Ages Eng. 24 The distinction of the judge of law from the judge of fact or juryman was derived from Italian sources many hundred years later.
b. As rendering of Gr. δικαστής dicast or of L. judex.
1879Froude Cæsar iii. 26 All cases of importance, civil or criminal, came before courts of sixty or seventy jurymen. 1881S. H. Butcher Demosthenes i. (1893) 10 There were still jurymen eager to serve and litigants ready to supply cases.
c. With qualification, as grand-juryman, a member of a grand jury.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 3 I'le be sworne hee was a grande iurie man, in respect of me. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. iii. ii. 17 They haue beene grand Iurie men, since before Noah was a Saylor. 1752J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 196 Naming all the Grand Jury-mens Names without their Additions. 1881E. Robertson in Encycl. Brit. XIII. 786/1 The qualification of the grand jurymen is that they should be freeholders of the county,—to what amount appears to be uncertain. |