forjudge

English

Alternative forms

• forjuge (Scotland)
• forejudge

Etymology

From Middle English forjugen; in sense 1, from Old French fourjugier (“to judge illegally, dispossess”); in sense 2, from Middle English for- + jugen (“to judge”), equivalent to for- +‎ judge. Compare fordeem.

Verb

forjudge (third-person singular simple present forjudges, present participle forjudging, simple past and past participle forjudged)

1. (transitive, obsolete except as a legal term) To exclude, oust, or dispossess by a judgment; prohibit (from).
   • 1765, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England. Book the First, Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 129–130:

     And it is enacted by the ſtatute 5 Edw. III. c. 9 that no man ſhall be forejudged of life or limb, contrary to the great charter and the law of the land: and again, by ſtatute 28 Ed. III. c. 3, that no man ſhall be put to death, without being brought to anſwer by due proceſs of law.

2. (transitive, dialectal in British) To condemn judicially (to a penalty).

Derived terms

• forjudgement
• forjudger