Jus-tĭ'ci-ar or Jus-tĭ'ci-a-ry, n.
(jus-tĭsh'ĭ-ar), Jus-tĭ'ci-a-ry (jus-tĭsh'ĭ-a-rȳ, 95), n. [L. Lat. justiciarius, justitiarius, Fr. & Pr. justicier, Sp. justiciero, Pg. justiceiro, It. giustiziere. See JUSTICE.]
Sense 1. An administrator of justice; a judge or justice. Burke.
Sense 2. A lord chief justice. Wharton.
☞ The chief justiciar, in early English history, was not only the chief justice of the kingdom, but also the head of the military forces.
Sense 3. One who boasts of the justice of his own act. [Obs.] Sir E. Dering.
Court of Justiciary (Scots Law), the supreme criminal court.