v. t. [ Pref. ab- + judge, v. Cf. Abjudicate. ] To take away by judicial decision. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. abjudicatus, p. p. of abjudicare; ab + judicare. See Judge, and cf. Abjudge. ] To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge. [ Obs. ] Ash. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Rejection by judicial sentence. [ R. ] Knowles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Adjudged p. pr. & vb. n. Adjudging ] [ OE. ajugen, OF. ajugier, fr. L. adjudicare; ad + judicare to judge. See Judge, and cf. Adjudicate. ] 1. To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To determine in the exercise of judicial power; to decide or award judicially; to adjudicate; as, the case was adjudged in the November term. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To sentence; to condemn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Without reprieve, adjudged to death
For want of well pronouncing Shibboleth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To regard or hold; to judge; to deem. [ 1913 Webster ]

He adjudged him unworthy of his friendship. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To decree; award; determine; adjudicate; ordain; assign. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who adjudges. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of adjudging; judicial decision; adjudication. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Adjudicated p. pr. & vb. n. Adjudicating [ L. adjudicatus, p. p. of adjudicare. See Adjudge. ] To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To come to a judicial decision; as, the court adjudicated upon the case. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adjudicatio: cf. F. adjudication. ] 1. The act of adjudicating; the act or process of trying and determining judicially. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A deliberate determination by the judicial power; a judicial decision or sentence. “An adjudication in favor of natural rights.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bankruptcy practice) The decision upon the question whether the debtor is a bankrupt. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Scots Law) A process by which land is attached security or in satisfaction of a debt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Adjudicating. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who adjudicates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Adjudication. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dijudicans, p. pr. ] One who dijudicates. [ R. ] Wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Dijudicated p. pr. & vb. n. Dijucating ] [ L. dijudicatus, p. p. of dijudicare to decide; di- = dis- + judicare to judge. ] To make a judicial decision; to decide; to determine. [ R. ] Hales. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dijudicatio. ] The act of dijudicating; judgment. [ R. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Judgment; discrimination. See Dijudication. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To free from prejudice. [ Obs. ] W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Out of or beyond the power authority of a court or judge; beyond jurisdiction; not valid as a part of a judicial proceeding; as, extrajudicial oaths, judgments, etc., are null and void. -- Ex`tra*ju*di"cial*ly, adv. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

. (Law) A conveyance, as by deed, effected by the act of the parties and not involving, as in the fine and recovery, judicial proceedings. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ Fore + judge. ] To judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof; to prejudge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ For forjudge, fr. F. forjuger; OF. fors outside, except + F. juger to judge. ] (O. Eng. Law) To expel from court for some offense or misconduct, as an attorney or officer; to deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eng. Law) A judgment by which one is deprived or put out of a right or thing in question. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Prejudgment. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not well judged; unwise; not well considered or thought out; as, an ill-judged attempt.
Syn. -- ill-advised, ill considered, rash. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Not prejudged; unprejudiced; impartial. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not cognizable by a judge. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not according to the forms of law; not judicial. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + judicious; cf. F. injudicieux. ] 1. Not judicious; wanting in sound judgment; undiscerning; indiscreet; unwise; as, an injudicious adviser. [ 1913 Webster ]

An injudicious biographer who undertook to be his editor and the protector of his memory. A. Murphy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not according to sound judgment or discretion; unwise; as, an injudicious measure.

Syn. -- Indiscreet; inconsiderate; undiscerning; incautious; unwise; rash; hasty; imprudent. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an injudicious manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being injudicious; lack of sound judgment; indiscretion. Whitlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of the tribe of Judah; a member of the kingdom of Judah; a Jew. Kitto.

{ } a. [ L. Judaïcus, fr. Judaea, the country Judea: cf. F. Judaïque. See Jew. ] Of or pertaining to the Jews. “The natural or Judaical [ religion ].” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. After the Jewish manner. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ L. Judaïsmus: cf. F. judaïsme. ] 1. The religious doctrines and rites of the Jews as enjoined in the laws of Moses, and for many adherents, in the Talmud. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Conformity to the Jewish rites and ceremonies; the practise of Judaism{ 1 }. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The adherents of Judaism{ 1 } collectively; jewry. [ PJC ]

n. One who believes and practices Judaism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Judaism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of Judaizing; a conforming to the Jewish religion or ritual. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Judaized p. pr. & vb. n. Judaizing ] [ Cf. F. judaïser. ] To conform to the doctrines, observances, or methods of the Jews; to inculcate or impose Judaism. [ 1913 Webster ]

They . . . prevailed on the Galatians to Judaize so far as to observe the rites of Moses in various instances.
They were Judaizing doctors, who taught the observation of the Mosaic law. Bp. Bull. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To impose Jewish observances or rites upon; to convert to Judaism. [ 1913 Webster ]

The heretical Theodotion, the Judaized Symmachus. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who conforms to or inculcates Judaism; specifically, pl. (Ch. Hist.), those Jews who accepted Christianity but still adhered to the law of Moses and worshiped in the temple at Jerusalem. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Raskolnik. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The disciple who betrayed Christ. Hence: A treacherous person; one who betrays under the semblance of friendship. -- a. Treacherous; betraying. [ 1913 Webster ]

Judas hole, a peephole or secret opening for spying. --
Judas kiss, (a) a deceitful and treacherous kiss. (b) an act appearing to be an act of friendship, which is in fact harmful to the recipient. --
Judas tree (Bot.), a leguminous tree of the genus Cercis, with pretty, rose-colored flowers in clusters along the branches. Judas is said to have hanged himself on a tree of this genus (Cercis Siliquastrum). Cercis Canadensis and Cercis occidentalis are the American species, and are called also redbud. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Red; -- from a tradition that Judas Iscariot had red hair and beard. [ 1913 Webster ]

There's treachery in that Judas-colored beard. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ For judcock; jud (equiv. to Prov. E. gid a jacksnipe, W. giach snipe) + cock. ] (Zool.) See Jacksnipe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Judaeus. See Jew. ] Of or pertaining to Judea. -- n. A native of Judea; a Jew. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having origins in both Judaism and Christianity; of or pertaining to Christianity; as, the Judeo-Christian tradition. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. juge, OF. & F. juge, fr. OF. jugier, F. juger, to judge. See Judge, v. i. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Law) A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose. [ 1913 Webster ]

The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct the evidence; to moderate length, repetition, or impertinency of speech; to recapitulate, select, and collate the material points of that which hath been said; and to give the rule or sentence. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who has skill, knowledge, or experience, sufficient to decide on the merits of a question, or on the quality or value of anything; one who discerns properties or relations with skill and readiness; a connoisseur; an expert; a critic. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man who is no judge of law may be a good judge of poetry, or eloquence, or of the merits of a painting. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A person appointed to decide in a trial of skill, speed, etc., between two or more parties; an umpire; as, a judge in a horse race. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Jewish Hist.) One of the supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. pl. The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges. [ 1913 Webster ]

Judge Advocate (Mil. & Nav.), a person appointed to act as prosecutor at a court-martial; he acts as the representative of the government, as the responsible adviser of the court, and also, to a certain extent, as counsel for the accused, when he has no other counsel. --
Judge-Advocate General, in the United States, the title of two officers, one attached to the War Department and having the rank of brigadier general, the other attached to the Navy Department and having the rank of colonel of marines or captain in the navy. The first is chief of the Bureau of Military Justice of the army, the other performs a similar duty for the navy. In England, the designation of a member of the ministry who is the legal adviser of the secretary of state for war, and supreme judge of the proceedings of courts-martial.

Syn. -- Judge, Umpire, Arbitrator, Referee. A judge, in the legal sense, is a magistrate appointed to determine questions of law. An umpire is a person selected to decide between two or more who contend for a prize. An arbitrator is one chosen to allot to two contestants their portion of a claim, usually on grounds of equity and common sense. A referee is one to whom a case is referred for final adjustment. Arbitrations and references are sometimes voluntary, sometimes appointed by a court. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Judged p. pr. & vb. n. Judging. ] [ OE. jugen, OF. jugier, F. juger, L. judicare, fr. judex judge; jus law or right + dicare to proclaim, pronounce, akin to dicere to say. See Just, a., and Diction, and cf. Judicial. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord judge between thee and me. Gen. xvi. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

Father, who art judge
Of all things made, and judgest only right! Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To assume the right to pass judgment on another; to sit in judgment or commendation; to criticise or pass adverse judgment upon others. See Judge, v. t., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To compare facts or ideas, and perceive their relations and attributes, and thus distinguish truth from falsehood; to determine; to discern; to distinguish; to form an opinion about. [ 1913 Webster ]

Judge not according to the appearance. John vii. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

She is wise if I can judge of her. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties. “Chaos [ shall ] judge the strife.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom. [ 1913 Webster ]

God shall judge the righteous and the wicked. Eccl. iii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

To bring my whole cause 'fore his holiness,
And to be judged by him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward. [ 1913 Webster ]

Judge not, that ye be not judged. Matt. vii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon. [ 1913 Webster ]

If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord. Acts xvi. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Make us a king to judge us. 1 Sam. viii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Created by judges or judicial decision; -- applied esp. to law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of statutes so as extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc., and often used opprobriously of acts of judicial interpretation considered as doing this. Judge-made law is contrasted with statutory law and civil law. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

The law of the 13th century was judge-made law in a fuller and more literal sense than the law of any succeeding century has been. Sir Frederick Pollock. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]