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serjeant n. 中士;警官;高等律师 中士;警官;高等律师 serjeant n 1: an English barrister of the highest rank [ synonym: { serjeant- at- law}, { serjeant}, { sergeant- at- law}, { sergeant}] Sergeant \ Ser" geant\, n. [ F. sergent, fr. L. serviens, - entis, p. pr. of servire to serve. See { Serve}, and cf. { Servant}.] [ Written also { serjeant}. Both spellings are authorized. In England { serjeant} is usually preferred, except for military officers. In the United States { sergeant} is common for civil officers also.] 1. Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant- at- arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament ( one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery. [ 1913 Webster] The sergeant of the town of Rome them sought. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] The magistrates sent the serjeant, saying, Let those men go. -- Acts xvi. 35. [ 1913 Webster] This fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Mil.) In a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned officer next in rank above a corporal, whose duty is to instruct recruits in discipline, to form the ranks, etc. [ 1913 Webster] Note: In the United States service, besides the sergeants belonging to the companies there are, in each regiment, a sergeant major, who is the chief noncommissioned officer, and has important duties as the assistant to the adjutant; a quartermaster sergeant, who assists the quartermaster; a color sergeant, who carries the colors; and a commissary sergeant, who assists in the care and distribution of the stores. Ordnance sergeants have charge of the ammunition at military posts. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Law) A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also { serjeant at law}. [ Eng.] -- Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster] 4. A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon. [ Eng.] [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Zool.) The cobia. [ 1913 Webster] { Drill sergeant}. ( Mil.) See under { Drill}. { Sergeant- at- arms}, an officer of a legislative body, or of a deliberative or judicial assembly, who executes commands in preserving order and arresting offenders. See { Sergeant}, 1. { Sergeant major}. ( a) ( Mil.) See the Note under def. 2, above. ( b) ( Zool.) The cow pilot. [ 1913 Webster]
Serjeant \ Ser" jeant\, Serjeantcy \ Ser" jeant* cy\, etc. See { Sergeant}, { Sergeantcy}, etc. [ 1913 Webster] { Serjeant- at- arms}. See { Sergeant- at- arms}, under { Sergeant}. [ 1913 Webster]
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