justicelike

justicelike (comparative more justicelike, superlative most justicelike)

1. Alternative form of justice-like
   • 1820, Richard Paul Jodrell, Philology on the English Language, London: for the Author, by Cox and Baylis:

     JUSTICELIKE. adj. Resembling the character of a magistrate. / He by conversing with them is turned into a justicelike servingman. / Shakespeare, Henry IV, pt. ii, a. iv, s. 3.

   • c. 1596–1599 (unhyphenated – 1826), William Shakspeare, King Henry IV. Part II. (The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, volume V, Chiswick: Charles Whittingham, ), from the Chiswick Press, act V, scene I, page 367:

     It is a wonderful thing, to see the semblable coherence of his men’s spirits and his: They, by observing him, do bear themselves like foolish justices; he, by conversing with them, is turned into a justicelike serving-man; their spirits are so married in conjunction with the participation of society, that they flock together in consent, like so many wild geese.

   • 1884 February 9, The Muncie Daily News‎, sixth year, number 236, Muncie, Ind.:

     The boys were badly scared by the austere and justicelike manner of ’Squire Eiler.

   • 1907 August 1, The Topeka Daily Capital, volume XXXI, number 163, Topeka, Kan., page 4:

     A cigarette started the blaze that caused the loss of a million and a half of dollars at Coney Island. That sounds consistent and poetic-justicelike.

   • 1987 July 5, Charlotte Grimes, “Bork Fits And Defies Judicial Stereotype”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 109, number 186, page 4A:

     And in Washington, where the nine members of the Supreme Court are almost the only government officials who do not joust with the press corps, he maintained a strict justicelike silence when he appeared last week in the White House press room with Reagan — to the point, as one veteran journalist querulously put it, of “not even saying thank you” after his introduction.

   • 2002 February 7, Bob Strauss, “It might evoke Sept. 11 images, but ‘Damage’ isn’t anything special”, in Longview News-Journal, Longview, Tex., page 1C:

     But when he tries to get obsessive CIA agent Brandt (Elias Koteas) in charge of the case to do something justicelike about it, Gordy’s brushed off.