| 单词 | counsellor-at-law |
| 释义 | > as lemmascounsellor-at-law 3. (More fully counsellor-at-law.) One whose profession is to give legal advice to clients, and conduct their cases in court; a counselling lawyer, a barrister or advocate. archaic in English use; still used in Ireland. In some of the United States, an attorney admitted to practise in all the courts. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > counsellor, barrister, or advocate advocatec1384 oratorc1384 prolocutor1493 counsellor1530 barristerc1545 barman1657 bar-gown1664 counsel1709 limb of the bar1815 blue bag1817 actor1875 1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xix. sig. F.viiiv What ys the counsaylloure in that case bounden to, to hym that he gaue counsayle to. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. ii. 98 Good Counsellors lacke no Clients. View more context for this quotation 1632 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 111 Mr Tuke the elder ingrossed the said Butler's answere with his own hand, and gott a Councellor's hand thereunto. 1648 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. 64 (note) A Counsellor at Law, very learned and in great practice. 1779 F. Burney Diary Oct. (1842) I. 268 A rich counsellor, learned in the law, but, to me, a displeasing man. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 265 Mr. Counsellor Pleydell. 1877 Blackie's Pop. Encycl. III. 704/1 A counsellor at law, named Mallet, who lived in the reign of Charles I. 1891 Murray's Mag. Dec. 977 (Two Irish Stories) I'm goin' to be med a barrister, or, as we call it here, a counsellor. < as lemmas |
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