justiciary vs sergeant

justiciary

noun
  • A magistrate. 

  • The judiciary: a collective term for the court system or the body of judges, justices etc. 

  • A judgeship: a judge's jurisdiction, power, or office. 

  • Various equivalent medieval offices elsewhere in Europe. 

  • A believer in the doctrine (or heresy) that adherence to religious law redeems mankind before God. 

  • A justiciar: a high-ranking judicial officer of medieval England or Scotland. 

  • A judge or justice. 

  • A Chief Justiciar: the highest political and judicial officer of the Kingdom of England in the 12th and 13th centuries. 

adj
  • Judicial: of or relating to the administration of justice, judges, or judgeships. 

  • Of or relating to a circuit court held by one of the judges of the High Court of Justiciary. 

  • Of or relating to the High Court of Justiciary. 

sergeant

noun
  • A bailiff. 

  • A fish, the cobia. 

  • A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign. 

  • The highest rank of noncommissioned officer in some non-naval military forces and police. 

  • UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks. 

  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Athyma; distinguished from the false sergeants. 

  • A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law. 

  • A servant in monastic offices. 

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