Judge
Definition of Judge
Pronunciation: jŭjd n. | 1. | | | 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. | | 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. | | 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. | | 4. | (Jewish Hist.) One of the supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years. | | 5. | The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges. | v. i. | 1. | | | 1. | To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence. | | 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. | | 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.She is wise if I can judge of her. - Shak. | v. t. | 1. | To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties. | | 2. | To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom. | | 3. | To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.Judge not, that ye be not judged. - Matt. vii. 1. | | 4. | To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon. | | 5. | To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern.Make us a king to judge us. - 1 Sam. viii. 5. |
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