Deemster

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A judge; one who pronounces sentence or doom. dialectal

    "If you hire a house for a year, and before the end of a month, happen to disagree with your landlord, he goes to the Deemster, and tells him, that he suspects you intend to leave the island, without paying his rent; […]"

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judgejudgetribune

Example

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"If you hire a house for a year, and before the end of a month, happen to disagree with your landlord, he goes to the Deemster, and tells him, that he suspects you intend to leave the island, without paying his rent; […]"

Etymology

From Middle English demester, demster, equivalent to deem (“to judge”) + -ster.

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