dijudicant

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dijudicans, present participle of dijudico (“I dijudicate”).

Noun

dijudicant (plural dijudicants)

1. One who dijudicates.
   • 1691, [Anthony Wood], Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Tho[mas] Bennet […]:

     This also must be said, that he did not blame the use of Aristotle in the Universities among the junior Students, but did altogether disapprove the streightness and sfloath of elder dijudicants, from whom a more generous temper might be expected

References

“dijudicant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Verb

dījūdicant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of dījūdicō