judicial

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iūdiciālis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒuˈdɪʃəl/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪʃəl
  • Hyphenation: ju‧di‧cial

Adjective

judicial (comparative more judicial, superlative most judicial)

  1. Of or relating to the administration of justice.
  2. Of or relating to the court system or the judicial branch of government.
    • 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
      It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
  3. (Ireland, historical) specified by a civil bill court under the terms of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881
    'judicial rent, judicial lease
  4. Of or relating to judgeship or the judiciary, the collective body of judges.
  5. Of or relating to sound judgment; judicious (but see Usage notes).

Usage notes

Many editors maintain a differentiation between judicial and judicious and believe that writers should not confuse judicial (having to do with justice and judiciary systems) with judicious (showing good judgment), so for example judicious use of X (i.e. wisely chosen) is not interchangeable with judicial use of X (i.e. by the courts). Meanwhile, the word juridical is not well differentiated in meaning from judicial, the two having substantial semantic overlap.

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Noun

judicial (uncountable)

  1. That branch of government which is responsible for maintaining the courts of law and for the administration of justice.
    Synonym: judiciary

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iūdiciālis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

judicial m or f (masculine and feminine plural judicials)

  1. judicial

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Galician

Adjective

judicial m or f (plural judiciais, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of xudicial

References

  • judicial” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iūdiciālis.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʒu.d͡ʒi.siˈaw/ , (faster pronunciation) /ʒu.d͡ʒiˈsjaw/
 

Adjective

judicial m or f (plural judiciais)

  1. judicial
    • 2007, Leonardo Barreto Moreira Neves, O fim da culpa na separação judicial, Editora del Rey, →ISBN, page 148:
      A questão jurídica em debate foi com precisão resumida pelo Ministro Castro Filho: "É possível o juiz decretar a separação judicial do casal por culpa recíproca ou insuportabilidade da vida em comum, quando o pedido de separação é fundado na culpa exclusiva de um dos cônjuges, ausente a reconvenção".
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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iūdiciālis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /xudiˈθjal/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /xudiˈsjal/
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: ju‧di‧cial

Adjective

judicial m or f (masculine and feminine plural judiciales)

  1. judicial

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