judication

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iudicatio, iudicationis.

Noun

judication (countable and uncountable, plural judications)

  1. The act of judging, judgment.
    • 1853, Marcus Tullius Cicero, translated by C. D. Yonge, On invention:
      From this mode of bringing forward evidence, arises that last kind of dispute which we call the judication, or examination of the excuses alleged. And that is of this kind: whether it was right that his mother should be put to death by Orestes, because she had put to death Orestes's father?
    • 1988, P. A. Brunt, The fall of the Roman Republic and related essays:
      Moreover it is clear that in Cicero's time judication in civil as well as in criminal cases enhanced a man's dignity, which was dear to every upper-class Roman.
    • 1990, M. Afzalur Rahim, Theory and research in conflict management:
      Judication is a process in which each party offers facts and arguments to a judge or executive in order to persuade that arbiter to render an authoritative decision on its behalf.