serjeant
IPA: sˈɝdʒʌnt
noun
- Archaic spelling of sergeant. [(military) UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.]
- (law) Short for serjeant-at-law. [(historical) A member of an order of barristers at the English and Irish Bar, who for many centuries had exclusive jurisdiction over the Court of Common Pleas.]
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Examples of "serjeant" in Sentences
- The Serjeant then unlocks the doors.
- The spelling serjeant is sometimes used.
- In 1705 he accepted the degree of serjeant at law.
- In 1727 he was declared the king's first serjeant.
- Malberthorp was a serjeant at the common bench by 1299.
- Crewe was a member of Gray's Inn, and a serjeant at law.
- His first appearance in the records is in 1376, as king's serjeant.
- Why the serjeant is a scholar to be sure, and has the gift of reading.
- He was appointed a serjeant at law in 1794, and a king's serjeant in 1804.
- The actual involvement of the Serjeant Painters in this gradually declined.
- Serjeant appealed against the length of the sentence but the appeal was refused.
- For the serjeant was a rising man, and Lady Demolines was not exactly progressing in the world.
- The following was the procession of the 3d J Regt on the aforesaid day first one serjeant drest in an
- At last, calling the serjeant aside, I asked him, 'If I was too old to be accepted in place of my son?'
- Rather like prefects in a well-run school, or serjeant-majors in the army, they find out what the masters/officers cannot.
- But the head nurseship of a hospital serjeant is the more essential, the more important, the more inexperienced the nurses.
- Sent the serjeant after Bloore on one of the horses; he rode back as far as Sankaree without seeing him, and concluded he had lost the path.
- I suspected that the serjeant might have rode past him asleep under the tree; I therefore got three volunteers to go with me, and look for him.
- He had been thirty-one years a soldier, twelve times a corporal, nine times a serjeant; but an unfortunate attachment to the bottle always returned him into the ranks.
- This artifice, to which he is impelled by towering ambition, the serjeant seems disposed to connive at -- and the serjeant is a hero, and a great man in his way; "your hero always must be tall, you know."
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