the King's Attorney: earlier (descriptive) designation of the legal officer now called attorney-general, n. Mr. Attorney, the ‘style’ used in…

Specific title of the law officer of various councils, etc., and the clerk of various courts: see also attorney-general, n.

spec. Attorney-General, Attorney General: a legal officer of the state empowered to act in all cases in which the state is a party. In England…

a law-officer (in England ranking next to the Attorney-General, in Scotland to the Lord-Advocate), who takes the part of the state or crown in…

(originally) an attorney who works in the city; (now chiefly) an attorney employed by a city to advise and represent it in legal matters.

(a) U.S. an official elected or appointed to represent the State in the prosecution of criminal offences, being typically the chief legal officer…

Attorney General.

(see quot. 1977).