[mod. f. L. crīmināl-is CRIMINAL + -IST. Cf. F. criminaliste (1715 in Hatzfeld).] One versed in criminal law; a writer on criminal law.
a. 1631. Donne, Ess. (1651), 97. I haue read in some of the Criminalists.
1831. Edin. Rev., LIV. 188. Consulting the … criminalists of different nations.
1892. Nation (N. Y.), 15 Sept., 203/3. The theories advanced by the anthropological school of criminalists.
