the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Lawyerlike; legal.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Pettifogging.
n. A pettifogger.
Word Usage
"And, on looking again at one case of '_thereafter_,' viz. at page 79, it seems impossible to determine whether he uses it in the classical English sense, or in the sense of leguleian barbarism."