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Definition of Bencher
1. n. One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.
Definition of Bencher
1. Noun. (obsolete legal) One of the senior governing members of an Inn of Court. ¹
2. Noun. (UK obsolete) An alderman of a corporation. ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete) A member of a court or council. ¹
4. Noun. (obsolete) One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bencher
1. a magistrate [n -S] - See also: magistrate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bencher
Literary usage of Bencher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Inns of Court and Chancery by William John Loftie (1893)
"His grandfather, Thomas Lucas, was a bencher of the Inner Temple in 1550, ...
Sir Edward Coke, who died in 1633, was a bencher before he became a chief ..."
2. The Quarterly Reviewby William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1819)
"By Jeremy Bentham, Esq. bencher of Lincoln's-inn, and late of Queen's-college,
Oxford, MA - 167 IX. I. The Travels of Marco Polo, a Venetian, ..."
3. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1846)
"At a Council held the 8th day of May, 1754, — Ordered, That the Honble bencher
of Cha* Yorke, ... bencher ..."
4. The Westminster Review by John Chapman, Charles William Wason (1829)
"Petition for Codification, by Jeremy Bentham, Esq., bencher of Lincoln s Inn.
Robert Howard. 8vo. 1829. 2. Petitions for Justice. By the same Author. 3. ..."
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