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SOLICITOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A British lawyer who gives legal advice and prepares legal documents
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("solicitor" is a kind of...):
attorney; lawyer (a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "solicitor"):
law agent (a solicitor in Scotland)
Derivation:
solicitorship (the position of solicitor)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes
Synonyms:
canvasser; solicitor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("solicitor" is a kind of...):
petitioner; requester; suppliant; supplicant (one praying humbly for something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "solicitor"):
fundraiser (someone who solicits financial contributions)
Derivation:
solicit (make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently)
Context examples:
You mentioned your name, as if I should recognize it, but I assure you that, beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a Freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I went on with my part of the work, and in another half hour had found the name and address of Mrs. Westenra's solicitor and had written to him.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
My name is Briggs, a solicitor of — Street, London.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He said it was the genteelest profession in the world, and must on no account be confounded with the profession of a solicitor: being quite another sort of thing, infinitely more exclusive, less mechanical, and more profitable.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It is known that Mr. Jonas Oldacre had received a late visitor in his bedroom upon that night, and the stick found has been identified as the property of this person, who is a young London solicitor named John Hector McFarlane, junior partner of Graham and McFarlane, of 426, Gresham Buildings, E.C.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When you find anything of the solicitor who is for the late Mrs. Westenra, seal all her papers, and write him to-night.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Yet that she should be found is become a matter of serious urgency: advertisements have been put in all the papers; I myself have received a letter from one Mr. Briggs, a solicitor, communicating the details I have just imparted.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Immense deference was shown to the Henry Spikers, male and female; which Agnes told me was on account of Mr. Henry Spiker being solicitor to something or to somebody, I forget what or which, remotely connected with the Treasury.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
This cargo was consigned to a Whitby solicitor, Mr. S. F. Billington, of 7, The Crescent, who this morning went aboard and formally took possession of the goods consigned to him.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Mr. Briggs, being Mr. Eyre's solicitor, wrote to us last August to inform us of our uncle's death, and to say that he had left his property to his brother the clergyman's orphan daughter, overlooking us, in consequence of a quarrel, never forgiven, between him and my father.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
