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See also: Judge
English
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English juge, jugge, from Old French juge, from Latin iūdex. Displaced native Middle English deme (from Old English dēma (“judge”)) and demere (from Old English dēmere (“judge”)), see also deemer, deemster.
Noun
judge (plural judges)
- A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Judicature”, in The Essayes , 3rd edition, London: Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
- 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.
- A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
- A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, 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.
- (historical, biblical) A shophet, a temporary leader appointed in times of crisis in ancient Israel.
Synonyms
- (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); doomsman (obsolete)
- (one who judges generally): deemer, deemster
Derived terms
- activist judge
- chief judge
- from the East German judge
- goal judge
- grave as a judge
- judge advocate
- judgecraft
- judgeful
- judgelike
- judgeling
- judgely
- judge-made
- judge-made law
- judge of fact
- judge-rapporteur
- judgeship
- judgy
- lay judge
- line judge
- no one should be judge in his own cause
- purple judge
- red judge
- sober as a judge
- sub-judge
- tell it to the judge
- touch judge
Descendants
- → Assamese: জজ (zoz)
- → Bengali: জজ (joj)
- → Hindustani:
- → Odia: ଜଜ୍ (jôj)
- → Tamil: ஜட்ஜி (jaṭji)
- → Telugu: జడ్జ (jaḍja)
Translations
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 2
From Middle English jugen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman juger, from Old French jugier, from Latin iūdicāre. Doublet of judicate.
Mostly displaced native deem.
Verb
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 person or matter).
- 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 judicially rule or determine.
- (transitive, obsolete) To sentence to punishment, to judicially condemn.
- He was judged to die for his crimes.
- (transitive, obsolete) To award judicially; to adjudge.
- (transitive) To form an opinion on; to appraise.
- 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.
- (transitive, obsolete) To constitute a fitting appraisal or criterion of; to provide a basis for forming an opinion on.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
- Noble and milde this Perſean ſeemes to be,
If outward habit Iudge the inward man.
- (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.
- (transitive, intransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.
- I judge from the sky that it might rain later.
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) , London: Chatto & Windus, , →OCLC:
- 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; to be judgmental toward.
- 1993, Aerosmith, Livin' on the Edge:
- 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
- (transitive, intransitive) To govern as biblical judge or shophet (over some jurisdiction).
- 1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Judges 10:3:
- And after him aroſe Iair a Gileadite, and iudged Iſrael twentie and two yeeres.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Judges 12:11:
- And after him, Elon, a Zebulonite iudged Israel, and he iudged Israel ten yeeres.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:deem
Derived terms
Translations
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
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to form an opinion, infer
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to criticize or label another person or thing
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