Definition of "serjeant-at-law" []

• An English barrister of the highest rank (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "JOHN BRADSHAW, serjeant-at-law, was appointed president."
• "His wife was a daughter of the Edgars, who flourished about four hundred years in the county of Suffolk, and produced an eminent and wealthy serjeant-at-law, Sir Gregory Edgar, in the reign of Henry the Seventh."
• "As soon as any member of an inn of court is raised by royal writ to the state, degree, and dignity of a serjeant-at-law, he ceases to be a member of the society."