juratorial
/d͡ʒʊərəˈtɔərɪəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The parochial inquests, at which utilitarian tailors and anythingarian buttermen habitually fall foul of medical practitioners and chaplains, have hitherto afforded exclusive facilities for this—not often the most amiable—exercise of the juratorial faculty, even if it be an unquestionable privilege."
- "Twelve days have now passed since an exceptionally stupid jury pronounced a verdict which surprised the prosecution, shocked the spectators, and even astonished the Recorder, whose long experience must have rendered him completely case-hardened against any but the most flagrant instances of juratorial perversity."
- "[…]; the delay, expense, and doubt occasioned by judicial and juratorial ignorance of the usages of any particular business, through which every incident which mercantile men take for granted when dealing with each other, must be proved in detail, would seem to give some countenance to the notion that the merchants are right."
- "From some illustrations which have come down to us this juratorial knowledge was allowed to prevail even against the testimony of solemn deeds whose genuineness was not disputed."
- "Even these vagaries may not have penetrated the juratorial perception, had not Bertram skidded a little into blasphemy."
- "City of Mitchell v. Western Public Service Co., 124 Neb. 248, 246 N.W. 484 (1933) [appeal dismissed for want of a final judgment, 289 U.S. 709 (1933)], wherein the court said that, in the absence of a constitutional provision to the contrary, due process of law does not require a juratorial assessment of damages."
Etymology
From Late Latin jūrātōrius + English -al.] + -al¹. .