publicist

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pub=li=cist

CIDE DICTIONARY

publicist, n. [Cf. F. publiciste.].

 A writer on the laws of nature and nations; one who is versed in the science of public right, the principles of government, etc.  [1913 Webster]
"The Whig leaders, however, were much more desirous to get rid of Episcopacy than to prove themselves consummate publicists and logicians."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

publicist, n.
1 a publicity agent or public relations officer.
2 a journalist, esp. concerned with current affairs.
3 archaic a writer or other person skilled in international law.

Derivative

publicism n. publicistic adj.

Etymology

F publiciste f. L (jus) publicum public law

THESAURUS

publicist

AG, DA, KC, QC, SSC, US attorney, annotator, attorney general, book reviewer, city editor, civilian, columnist, commentator, commenter, copy chief, copy editor, copyman, copyreader, corporation lawyer, correspondent, court-appointed lawyer, criminal lawyer, critic, cub reporter, defense counsel, diaskeuast, district attorney, editor, editorial writer, editorialist, expositor, expounder, feature editor, foreign correspondent, gazetteer, glossarist, glossographer, interviewer, journalist, junior counsel, law agent, leader, leader writer, leg man, managing editor, mouthpiece, news analyst, news editor, newsman, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, own correspondent, paragrapher, paragraphist, pressman, private attorney, prosecuting attorney, prosecutor, public prosecutor, reader, reporter, reviewer, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter, scholiast, silk, silk gown, slotman, sob sister, solicitor general, special correspondent, special pleader, sports editor, stuff gown, stuff-gownsman, subeditor, war correspondent

ROGET THESAURUS

publicist

Book

N booklet, writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule, tract, tractate, livret, brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication, chap book, part, issue, number livraison, album, portfolio, periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal, paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet, leaf, leaflet, fly leaf, page, quire, ream, chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause, endpapers, frontispiece, cover, binding, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo, encyclopedia, encompilation, library, bibliotheca, press, definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation), writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism, pen, scribbler, the scribbling race, literary hack, Grub-street writer, writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press, adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger, publicist, reporter, penny a liner, editor, subeditor, playwright, poet, bookseller, publisher, bibliopole, bibliopolist, librarian, bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop, knowledge of books, bibliography, book learning, among the giant fossils of my past, craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux, for authors nobler palms remain, I lived to write and wrote to live, look in thy heart and write, there is no Past so long as Books shall live, the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writ, volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

Lawyer

N lawyer, attorney, legal counsel, counsel, counsellor, counsellor at law, attorney at law, jurist, legist, civilian, pundit, publicist, juris consult, legal adviser, advocate, barrister, barrister at law, King's or Queen's counsel, K, C, Q, C, silk gown, leader, sergeant-at-law, bencher, tubman, judge, bar, legal profession, bar association, association of trial lawyers, officer of the court, gentleman of the long robe, junior bar, outer bar, inner bar, equity draftsman, conveyancer, pleader, special pleader, solicitor, proctor, notary, notary public, scrivener, cursitor, writer, writer to the signet, S, S, C, limb of the law, pettifogger, vakil, legal beagle, legal secretary, legal assistant, law student, learned in the law, at the bar, forensic, esquire, esquired, banco regis.