Justicelike

JUSTICELIKE. adj. Resembling the character of a magistrate. / He by conversing with them is turned into a justicelike servingman. / [William] Shakespeare, Henry IV, p[ar]t. ii, a[ct]. iv, s[cene]. 3.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.