serjeant

IPA: sˈɝdʒʌnt

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.]

Examples of "serjeant" in Sentences

Why the serjeant is a scholar to be sure, and has the gift of reading.
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."