Crossword-Solution: PUISNE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Puisne | a. | Later in age, time, etc.; subsequent. |
| Puisne | a. | Puny; petty; unskilled. |
| Puisne | a. | Younger or inferior in rank; junior; associate; as, a chief justice and three puisne justices of the Court of Common Pleas; the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer. |
| Puisne | n. | One who is younger, or of inferior rank; a junior; esp., a judge of inferior rank. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PUISNE | anagram | SUPINE |
We have 5 clues for the answer “PUISNE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Junior, as a judge. | 1 answer |
| LOWER rank (pert. to) | 2 answers |
| Junior | 26 answers |
| subsequent | 44 answers |
| Judgement | 85 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PUISNE (5)
Collier, the Attorney-General, was appointed to a Puisne Judgeship, which he held only for a day or two, in order to qualify him for a seat on a new Court of Appeal; together with a very similar trick, by which Ewelme Rectory, tenable only by an Oxonian, was given to a Cambridge man.
One Richard Allibone, who was even more ignorant of the law than Wright, and who, as a Roman Catholic, was incapable of holding office, was appointed a puisne judge of the King's Bench.
Weekes, an Irish-American barrister, Thorpe, a puisne judge, Wyatt, the surveyor general, and Willcocks, a United Irishman who had become sheriff of one of the four Upper Canada districts, began to question the right to rule of "the Scotch pedlars" or "the Shopkeeper Aristocracy," as Thorpe called those merchants who, for the lack of other leaders, had developed an influence with the governors or ruled in their frequent absence.
Heathfield applied to one of the puisne judges for a postponement, on the ground that a principal witness could not attend.
When Chief Justice Monaghan died, Lord Morris, who was then a Puisne Judge of Common Pleas, observed that he himself had a good chance of the post.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1951).