Usually means: Judicial officer administering law, justice.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word justiciary:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. justiciary: Merriam-Webster
  2. justiciary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. justiciary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. justiciary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. justiciary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Justiciary, justiciary: Wordnik
  7. justiciary: Wiktionary
  8. justiciary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. justiciary: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Justiciary, justiciary: Dictionary.com
  11. Justiciary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. justiciary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. justiciary: Rhymezone
  14. Justiciary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. justiciary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. justiciary: FreeDictionary.org
  17. justiciary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. justiciary: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Justiciary: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (justiciary)

noun:  (Scotland, countable, chiefly historical) A judgeship: a judge's jurisdiction, power, or office.
noun:  (originally Scotland, uncountable) The judiciary: a collective term for the court system or the body of judges, justices etc.
noun:  (historical) One who administers justice, particularly:
noun:  (historical) A judge or justice.
noun:  (historical) A magistrate.
noun:  (historical) A Chief Justiciar: the highest political and judicial officer of the Kingdom of England in the 12th and 13th centuries.
noun:  (historical) A justiciar: a high-ranking judicial officer of medieval England or Scotland.
noun:  (historical) Various equivalent medieval offices elsewhere in Europe.
noun:  (Christianity, theology) A believer in the doctrine (or heresy) that adherence to religious law redeems mankind before God.
adjective:  (Christianity, theology, obsolete) Of or relating to justification or redemption before God.
adjective:  (Christianity, theology, obsolete) Of or relating to the doctrine (or heresy) that adherence to religious law redeems mankind before God.
adjective:  Judicial: of or relating to the administration of justice, judges, or judgeships.
adjective:  Of or relating to the High Court of Justiciary.
adjective:  Of or relating to a circuit court held by one of the judges of the High Court of Justiciary.

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