judge
See also: Judge
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- judg (obsolete)
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English juge, jugge, borrowed from Old French juge, from Latin iūdex, iūdicem.
NounEdit
judge (plural judges)
- A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
- (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
- 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.
- (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
- A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
- A person officiating at a sports event or similar.
- At a boxing match, the decision of the judges is final.
- A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.
- She is a good judge of wine.
- They say he is a poor judge of character considering all the unreliable friends he has made.
- (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
- A man who is no judge of law may be a good judge of poetry, or eloquence, or of the merits of a painting.
SynonymsEdit
- (one who judges in an official capacity): magistrate (now usually of low rank); justice (now usually of high rank); justiciar, justiciary (historic, of high rank); Chief Justice, Chief Justiciar, Capital Justiciary, Chief Justiciary, justiciar, justiciary (of the highest rank); justicer (obsolete); sheriff, bailiff, reeve (historic or obsolete)
- (one who judges generally): deemer, deemster
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Assamese: জজ (zoz)
- → Bengali: জজ (jôj)
- → Hindustani:
- → Oriya: ଜଜ୍ (jôj)
- → Tamil: ஜட்ஜி (jaṭji)
- → Telugu: జడ్జ (jaḍja)
TranslationsEdit
public judicial official
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someone deciding another's fate
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sports official
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someone with valued opinions
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Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English jugen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman juger, from Old French jugier, from Latin iūdicāre.
Mostly displaced native deem.
VerbEdit
judge (third-person singular simple present judges, present participle judging, simple past and past participle judged)
- (transitive) To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.
- A higher power will judge you after you are dead.
- (intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
- Justices in this country judge without appeal.
- (transitive) To form an opinion on.
- I judge a man’s character by the cut of his suit.
- c. 1921, Michael Collins, after the Anglo-Irish Treaty:
- Let us be judged for what we attempted rather than what we achieved.
- (intransitive) To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
- We cannot both be right: you must judge between us.
- (transitive) To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
- I judge it safe to leave the house once again.
- (intransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.
- I judge from the sky that it might rain later.
- 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VIII
- THE sun was up so high when I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock.
- (transitive, intransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.
- (Can we date this quote?), Livin' on the Edge, Aerosmith
- There's something wrong with the world today; the light bulb's getting dim.
- There's meltdown in the sky.
- If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin,
- Mister, you're a better man than I
- (Can we date this quote?), Livin' on the Edge, Aerosmith
SynonymsEdit
- See also Thesaurus:deem
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to sit in judgment on, pass sentence on
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to sit in judgment on, act as judge
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to form an opinion on
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to arbitrate, to pass opinion on something
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to have as an opinion, consider, suppose
to form an opinion, infer
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to criticize or label another person or thing
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