attorney vs legist

attorney

noun
  • A prosecutor 

  • A solicitor. 

  • An agent or representative authorized to act on someone else's behalf. 

  • An honorific given to lawyers and notaries public, or those holders by profession who also do other jobs. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Atty. 

  • Clusia spp. 

  • A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession. 

verb
  • To work as a legal attorney. 

  • To provide with a legal attorney. 

legist

noun
  • One skilled in the law. 

  • A writer on law, a legislator, a lawmaker 

How often have the words attorney and legist occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )