Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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justiciary

noun, adjective

Forms justiciaries

  1. noun (Scotland, countable, chiefly historical) A judgeship: a judge's jurisdiction, power, or office.
  2. noun (originally Scotland, uncountable) The judiciary: a collective term for the court system or the body of judges, justices etc.
  3. noun (historical) A judge or justice.
  4. noun (historical) A magistrate.
  5. noun (historical) A Chief Justiciar: the highest political and judicial officer of the Kingdom of England in the 12th and 13th centuries.
  6. noun (historical) A justiciar: a high-ranking judicial officer of medieval England or Scotland.
  7. noun (historical) Various equivalent medieval offices elsewhere in Europe.
  8. noun (Christianity, theology) A believer in the doctrine (or heresy) that adherence to religious law redeems mankind before God.
  9. adjective (Christianity, theology, obsolete) Of or relating to justification or redemption before God.
  10. adjective (Christianity, theology, obsolete) Of or relating to the doctrine (or heresy) that adherence to religious law redeems mankind before God.
  11. adjective Judicial: of or relating to the administration of justice, judges, or judgeships.
  12. adjective Of or relating to the High Court of Justiciary.
  13. adjective Of or relating to a circuit court held by one of the judges of the High Court of Justiciary.

Synonyms

judgeship judicature jurisdiction bench justiceship judiciary judicial judicial branch justicer justiciar doomsman judg judge justice judiciar legalist see legalist judicatory juridic juridical

Antonyms

antinomian solifidian

Etymology

From Late Latin justitiaria, justiciaria (“judgeship, judiciarship; court sessions”), justitiarius, and justiciarius (“justiciar, judge, justice [of the peace]; judiciary, related to justice”), all from Latin iūstitia (“justice”) + -āria (“-ary”). Paralleled in Middle English and Early Modern English by forms from Anglo-Norman justiserie (“judgeship, judiciarship”), from Anglo-Norman and Middle French justicerie (“judgeship; tribunal”), from justice + -ery. As a translation of various Continental European offices, via Middle French justicier, Spanish justiciero, etc.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An old name for the judges of the higher English courts.

Etymology [Cf. LL. justitiarius, F. justicier. See Justice.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “justiciary”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details