PUISNE

Definition: PUISNE

PUISNE

Adjective

1. Younger or inferior in rank; junior; associate; as, a chief justice and three puisne justices of the Court of Common Pleas; the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer.

2. Puny; petty; unskilled.

3. Later in age, time, etc.; subsequent.

Noun

1. One who is younger, or of inferior rank; a junior; esp., a judge of inferior rank.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PUISNE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)

Judge

Noun: judge; justice, justiciar, justiciary; chancellor; justice of assize, judge of assize; recorder, common sergeant; puisne judge, assistant judge, county court judge; conservator of the peace, justice of the peace; J.P.; court; (tribunal); magistrate, police magistrate, beak; his worship, his honor, his lordship.

Posteriority

Postdiluvian; puisne; posthumous; future; afterdinner, postprandial.

Youth

Adjective: young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne, beardless, under age, in one's teens; in statu pupillari; younger, junior; hebetic, unfledged.

Crosswords: PUISNE

Economic History

Barbados

Legal authority is vested in the Attorney General, the Chief Justice, and Puisne Judges and Magistrates (which are appointed by the Governor General on the advice of the Prime Minister). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "PUISNE": puisne judge. Additional references.

Albanian

pasues (adherent, coming, consequent, cortege, disciple, follow up, follower, following, hanger-on, henchman, incoming, next, proximate, pursuant to, pursuivant, Sequent, subsequent, successive, successor), i mëvonshëm (after, ulterior), anëtar (acolyte, adherent, apostle, cardholder, confederate, entrant, member, supporter). (various references)

Bulgarian 

младши съдия, младши (inferior, junior, minor). (various references)

French

juge puîné (puisne judge), doyen des juges puînés (senior puisne judge). (various references)

Greek 

κατώτεροσ (inferior, junior, substandard). (various references)

Hungarian

utószülött (posthumous). (various references)

Pig Latin

uisnepay

Portuguese

posterior (after, aftermost, back, hind, hinder, hindmost, posterior, rear, ulterior), subsequente (after, afters, ensuing, sequent, sequential, subsequent), subalterno (dependant, dependent, inferior, menial, secondary, subaltern, subordinate), juiz subalterno, juiz mais novo. (various references)

Romanian

magistrat inferior. (various references)

Russian 

маленький (diminutive, elvish, little, petite, pimping, pint-sized, pony, puny, small, thumb-nail), младший (jr., junior, low-order, younger). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mlađi (junior, kid, younger). (various references)

Spanish

posterior (after, afterwards, hind, later, posterior, rear, rearward, subsequent, thereafter), juez asesor, asesor (adviser, advisory, assessor, consultant, counselor, moderator, prudential). (various references)

Swedish

yngre (junior, younger), underdomare, senare (after, future, later, later on, latter, subsequent, subsequently, ulterior). (various references)

Turkish

rütbece düşük, ikinci hakim (puisne judge), ikici. (various references)

Ukrainian

молодший суддя, молодший за рангом, пізніший (farther, later, posterior). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "PUISNE": puisnes. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: supine.

-1 letter: peins, penis, pines, snipe, spine.

-2 letters: nips, pein, pens, pies, pine, pins, puns, sine, sipe, snip, spin, spue, spun, supe.

-3 letters: ens, ins, nip, nus, pen, pes, pie, pin, pis, piu, psi, pun, pus, sei, sen, sin, sip, sue, sun, sup, uns, ups, use.

-4 letters: en, es, in, is, ne, nu, pe, pi, si.

+1 letter: lineups, lupines, puisnes, puniest, punkies, punties, purines, spinule, spunkie, supines, unpiles, uprisen.

+2 letters: epigonus, finespun, junipers, penguins, penuchis, penuries, perusing, petunias, pinnules, pruinose, puniness, punished, punisher, punishes, punkiest, punniest, purlines, resupine, shunpike, spinulae, spinules, splenium, splenius, spunkier, spunkies, supering, supinate, supinely, unpoised, unripest.

+3 letters: bumpiness, dauphines, dumpiness, epifaunas, epigonous, epigynous, eruptions, espousing, euphenics, euphonies, expulsing, expulsion, impugners, insculped, jumpiness, lumpiness, peninsula, penurious, peponiums, perfusing, perfusion, perilunes, picayunes, piousness, piquances, prelusion, presuming, preunions, preunites, pudencies, pudginess, puffiness, puissance, pulpiness, punchiest, punishers, punkiness, pursiness, pushiness, queenship, repulsing, repulsion, shunpiked, shunpiker, shunpikes, spinulose, spunkiest, subalpine, superfine, superlain, supermind, supermini, superthin, supinated, supinates, tumplines, turnpikes, underlips, underpins, underspin, unrepairs, unshipped, unspoiled, upsending, upsetting.