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#968. Lawyer. -- N. lawyer

• attorney

• legal counsel

• counsel

• counsellor

• counsellor at law

• attorney at law

• jurist

• civilian

• pundit

• publicist

• juris consult[Lat]

• legal adviser

• advocate;

• barrister

• barrister at law

• King's or Queen's counsel

• K.C

• Q.C

• silk

• gown

• leader

• sergeant-at-law

• bencher

• judge

• bar

• legal profession

• bar association

• association of trial lawyers;

• officer of the court

• gentleman of the long robe

• junior bar

• outer bar

• inner bar

• equity draftsman

• conveyancer

• pleader

• special pleader

• solicitor

• proctor

• notary

• notary public

• scrivener

• writer

• writer to the signet

• S.S.C

• limb of the law

• pettifogger;

• legal beagle [coll.]

• [persons accessory to lawyers] legal secretary

• legal assistant

• law

• student

• V. practice law

• practice at the bar

• practice within the bar

• plead;

• call to the bar

• be called to the bar

• be called within the bar

• take silk;

• take to the law

• give legal counsel

• provide legal counsel

• Adj. learned in the law

• at the bar

• forensic

• esquire

• esquired

• Phr. banco regis[Lat]

#969. Lawsuit.-- N. lawsuit

• suit

• action

• cause

• litigation

• suit in

• law

• dispute

• citation

• arraignment

• prosecution

• impeachment

• accusation

• presentment

• true bill

• indictment

• apprehension

• arrest

• committal

• imprisonment

• writ

• summons

• subpoena

• nisi prius[Lat]

• venire

• venire facias

• pleadings[Lat]

• declaration

• bill

• claim

• bill of

• right

• information

• corpus delicti

• affidavit

• state of facts

• answer

• reply

• replication

• plea

• demurrer

• rebutter

• rejoinder

• suitor

• party to a suit

• plaintiff

• defendant

• litigant

• hearing

• trial

• verdict

• appeal

• appeal motion;

• writ of error

• certiorari[Lat]

• case

• decision

• precedent

• decided case

• reports (legal reference

• works

• see reference books)

• V. go to law

• appeal to the law

• bring to justice

• bring to trial

• bring to the bar

• put on trial

• pull up

• accuse

• prefer a claim

• file a claim

• take the law of

• inform against

• serve with a writ

• cite

• apprehend

• arraign

• sue

• prosecute

• bring an

• action against

• indict

• impeach

• attach

• distrain

• commit

• arrest

• summon

• summons

• give in charge

• empanel a jury

• join issue

• close the pleadings

• set

• down for hearing

• try

• hear a cause

• sit in judgment

• adjudicate

• Adj. litigious

• qui tam

• coram judice[Lat]

• sub

• judice[Lat]

• Adv. pendente lite[Lat]

• Phr. adhuc sub judice lis est[Lat]

• accedas ad curiam[Lat]

• transeat

• in exemplum[Lat]

#970. Acquittal.-- N. acquittal

• clearance

• exculpation

• acquittance

• clearance

• exoneration

• discharge

• 750

• quietus

• absolution

• reprieve

• respite

• pardon

• (forgiveness) 918

• [Exemption from punishment] impunity

• diplomatic immunity

• immunity;

• plea bargain

• deal with the prosecutor

• [in civil suits] no cause for action

• no damages

• V. acquit

• exculpate

• exonerate

• clear

• absolve

• whitewash

• discharge

• release

• liberate

• reprieve

• respite

• pardon

• let off

• let off scot-

• free

• drop the charges

• plea bargain

• strike a deal

• no-cause[in civil suits][transitive]

• get no-caused[intransitive]

• Adj. acquitted

• uncondemned

• unpunished

• unchastised

• not guilty

• not proven

• not liable

#971. Condemnation.-- N. condemnation

• conviction

• judgment

• penalty

• sentence

• proscription

• damnation

• death warrant

• attainder

• V. condemn

• convict

• cast

• bring home to

• find guilty

• damn

• doom

• sign the death warrant

• sentence

• pass sentence on

• attaint

• confiscate

• proscribe

• sequestrate

• disapprove

• accuse

• stand condemned

• Adj. condemnatory

• guilty

• condemned

• nonsuited

• self-convicted

• Phr. mutato nomine de te fabula narratur[Lat]

• "unrespited

• unpitied

• unreprieved" [P.L.]

• chastisement

• chastening

• correction

• castigation

• discipline

• infliction

• trial

• judgment

• penalty

• retribution;

• thunderbolt

• Nemesis

• requital

• penology

• retributive

• justice

• lash

• scaffold

• imprisonment

• (restraint)

• transportation

• banishment

• expulsion

• exile

• involuntary

• exile

• ostracism

• penal servitude

• hard labor

• galleys

• beating

• flagellation

• gantlet

• bastinado

• stick law

• rap

• on the knuckles

• box on the ear

• blow

• stripe

• cuff

• kick

• buffet

• pummel

• slap

• slap in the face

• wipe

• douse

• coup de grace;

• torture

• rack

• picket

• picketing

• capital punishment

• execution

• lethal injection

• the gas chamber;

• hanging

• electrocution

• rail-riding

• decapitation

• garrotte

• garrotto[It]

• crucifixion

• impalement

• firing

• squad

• martyrdom

• happy dispatch

• [suicide as punishment] hara-kiri

• seppuku [Japanese]

• drinking the

• hemlock

• V. punish

• chastise

• chasten

• castigate

• correct

• inflict punishment

• administer correction

• deal retributive justice

• cowhide

• lambaste*

• visit upon

• pay

• pay out

• serve out

• do for

• make short work of

• give

• a lesson to

• serve one right

• make an example of

• have a rod in pickle for;

• give it one

• strike

• deal a blow to

• administer the lash

• smite

• slap

• slap

• the face

• smack

• cuff

• box the ears

• spank

• thwack

• thump

• beat

• lay on

• buffet

• thresh

• thrash

• pummel

• drub

• leather

• trounce

• sandbag

• baste

• belabor

• lace

• lace one's jacket

• dress

• dress down

• give a

• dressing

• trim

• warm

• wipe

• cob

• bang

• strap

• comb

• lash

• lick

• larrup

• wallop

• whop

• flog

• scourge

• whip

• birch

• cane

• give the stick

• switch

• flagellate

• horsewhip

• bastinado

• towel

• rub down with an oaken

• towel

• rib roast

• dust one's jacket

• pitch into

• lay about

• one

• beat black and blue

• beat to a mummy

• beat to a jelly

• give a black

• eye

• tar and feather

• pelt

• stone

• masthead

• keelhaul

• execute

• bring to the block

• bring to the gallows

• behead

• decapitate

• guillotine

• decollate

• hang

• turn off

• gibbet

• bowstring

• hang draw and

• quarter

• shoot

• decimate

• burn

• break on the wheel

• crucify

• impale

• flay

• lynch

• electrocute

• gas

• send to the gas chamber

• torture

• put on

• put to the rack

• picket

• banish

• exile

• transport

• expel

• ostracize

• rusticate

• drum out;

• dismiss

• disbar

• strike off the roll

• unfrock

• post

• suffer

• suffer for

• suffer punishment

• be flogged

• be executed

• suffer the ultimate penalty

• be hanged

• come to the

• gallows

• mount the gallows

• swing [coll.]

• twist in the wind

• dance upon

• nothing

• die in one's shoes

• be rightly served

• be electrocuted

• fry

• [coll.]

• ride the lightning [coll.]

• face the firing squad

• Adj. punishing

• penal

• punitive

• inflictive

• castigatory

• punished

• Phr. culpan paena premit comes [Lat][Horace]

• "eating the bitter bread

• of banishment" [Richard II]

• gravis ira regum est semper [Lat][Seneca];

• sera tamen tacitis paena venit pedibus [Lat][Tibullus]

• suo sibi gladio

• hunc jugulo [Lat][Terence]

#973. Reward. -- N. reward

• recompense

• remuneration

• meed

• reguerdon|

• price

• [payment for damage or debt] indemnity

• indemnification

• quittance;

• compensation

• reparation

• redress

• satisfaction

• reckoning

• acknowledgment

• requital

• amends

• sop

• atonement

• retribution

• consideration

• return

• quid

• pro quo

• salvage

• perquisite

• vail

• bribe

• hush money

• smart money|!

• blackmail

• extortion;

• carcelage|

• allowance

• salary

• stipend

• wages

• compensation

• pay

• payment;

• emolument

• tribute

• shot

• scot

• bonus

• premium

• tip

• fee

• honorarium

• hire

• mileage

• crown

• V. reward

• recompense

• repay

• requite

• remunerate

• compensate

• fee

• pay one's footing

• make amends

• indemnify

• atone

• satisfy

• acknowledge

• get for one's pains

• reap the fruits of

• tip

• Adj. remunerative

• remuneratory

• compensatory

• retributive

• rewarding

• satisfactory

• Phr. fideli certa merces[Lat]

• honor virtutis praemium [Lat][Cicero];

• tibi seris tibi metis[Lat]

#974. Penalty. -- N. penalty

• retribution

• pain

• pains and penalties

• wergild

• penance

• the devil to pay

• fine

• mulct

• amercement

• forfeit

• forfeiture

• escheat[Law]

• damages

• sequestration

• confiscation

• premunire[Lat]

• doomage

• V. fine

• mulct

• amerce

• sconce

• confiscate

• sequestrate

• sequester;

• escheat[Law]

• forfeit

#975. [Instrument of punishment.] Scourge. -- N. scourge

• rod

• cane

• stick

• rattan

• birch

• birch rod

• quirt

• rawhide

• rod in pickle

• switch

• ferule

• cudgel

• truncheon

• whip

• bullwhip

• lash

• strap

• thong

• cowhide

• knout

• cat

• cat o'nine

• tails

• rope's end

• pillory

• stocks

• whipping post

• ducking stool;

• triangle[instruments of torture: list]

• wooden horse

• iron maiden

• thumbscrew

• boot

• rack

• wheel

• iron heel

• chinese water torture

• treadmill

• crank

• galleys

• scaffold

• block

• ax

• guillotine

• stake

• cross

• gallows

• gibbet

• tree

• drop

• noose

• rope

• halter

• bowstring

• death chair

• electric chair

• gas

• chamber

• lethal injection

• firing squad

• house of correction

• goaler

• jailer

• executioner

• lyncher

• hangman;

• Jack Ketch

#976. Deity. -- N. Deity

• Divinity

• Godhead

• Omnipotence

• Providence

• Heaven [metonymically]

• divinity

• God

• Lord

• Jehovah

• Jahweh

• The Almighty

• The Supreme

• Being

• The First Cause

• the Prime Mover

• Ens Entium[Lat]

• Author of all

• things

• Creator of all things

• Author of our being

• El;

• The Infinite

• The Eternal

• The All-powerful

• The All-wise

• The All-

• merciful

• The All-holy

• [Attributes and perfections] infinite power

• infinite wisdom

• infinite

• goodness

• infinite justice

• infinite truth

• infinite mercy

• omnipotence

• omniscience

• omnipresence

• unity

• immutability

• holiness

• glory

• majesty

• sovereignty

• infinity

• eternity

• The Trinity

• The Holy Trinity

• The Trinity in Unity

• The Triune God

• God the Father Son and Holy Ghost

• God the Father

• The Maker

• The Creator

• The Preserver

• [Functions] creation

• preservation

• divine government

• Theocracy

• providence

• ways of Providence

• dealings of Providence

• dispensations of Providence

• visitations of Providence

• [Christian God: second person] God the Son

• Jesus

• Christ

• The

• Messiah

• The Anointed

• The Saviour

• the Redeemer

• The Mediator

• The

• Intercessor

• The Advocate

• The Judge

• The Son of God

• The Son of Man

• The

• Son of David

• The Lamb of God

• The Word

• Logos

• Emmanuel

• Immanuel

• The

• King of Kings and Lord of Lords

• The King of Glory

• The Prince of Peace

• The Good Shepherd

• The Way

• The Truth

• The Life

• The Bread of Life

• The

• Light of the World

• The Lord our

• The Sun of Righteousness

• "The Pilot of

• the Galilean lake" [Milton]

• The Incarnation

• The Hypostatic Union

• [Functions] salvation

• redemption

• atonement

• propitiation

• mediation

• intercession

• judgment

• [Christian God: third person] God the Holy Ghost

• The Holy Spirit

• Paraclete[Theol]

• The Comforter

• The Spirit of Truth

• The Dove

• [Functions] inspiration

• unction

• regeneration

• sanctification

• consolation

• eon

• aeon

• special providence

• deus ex machina[Lat]

• avatar

• V. create

• move

• uphold

• preserve

• govern

• atone

• redeem

• save

• propitiate

• mediate

• predestinate

• elect

• call

• ordain

• bless

• justify

• sanctify

• glorify

• Adj. almighty

• holy

• hallowed

• sacred

• divine

• heavenly

• celestial;

• sacrosanct

• all-knowing

• all-seeing

• all-wise

• omniscient

• superhuman

• supernatural

• ghostly

• spiritual

• unearthly

• theistic

• theocratic

• anointed

• Adj. jure divino[Lat]

• by divine right

• Phr. Domine dirige nos[Lat]

• et sceleratis

• sol oritur [Lat][Seneca]

• "He mounts the storm and walks upon the wind"

• [Pope]

• "Thou great First Cause

• least understood" [Pope]

• sans Dieu