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= justiciar, n. 1c. Obsolete.
Chiefly Medieval History. The chief political and judicial officer under 12th- and 13th-cent. kings of England, who represented the king in all…
Chiefly Medieval History. The chief political and judicial officer under 12th- and 13th- cent. English kings (also more fully, Capital (also Chief)…