judge
See also: Judge
English
Alternative forms
- judg (obsolete), iudge (obsolete typography)
Pronunciation
- enPR: jŭj, IPA(key): /d͡ʒʌd͡ʒ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌdʒ
Etymology 1
From Middle English juge, jugge, borrowed from Old French juge, from Latin iūdex. Displaced native Old English dēma.
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 863521290:
- 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
- judgecraft
- judgeful
- judgelike
- judgely
- judgeship
- judgy
- purple judge
- red judge
- sober as a judge
Descendants
- → Assamese: জজ (zoz)
- → Bengali: জজ (jôjô)
- → Hindustani:
- Hindi: जज (jaj)
- Urdu: جج (jaj)
- → Oriya: 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.
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 […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; 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.
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- (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], chapter 8, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], OCLC 458431182:
- 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.
- 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
- 1993, Aerosmith, Livin' on the Edge
- (transitive, intransitive) To govern as biblical judge or shophet (over some jurisdiction).
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 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 964384981, Judges 12:11:
- And after him, Elon, a Zebulonite iudged Israel, and he iudged Israel ten yeeres.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of judge
| infinitive | (to) judge | ||
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| present tense | past tense | ||
| 1st-person singular | judge | judged | |
| 2nd-person singular | |||
| 3rd-person singular | judges | ||
| plural | judge | ||
| subjunctive | judge | judged | |
| imperative | judge | — | |
| participles | judging | judged | |
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:deem
Derived terms
- forejudge
- misjudge
- unjudge
- you can't judge a book by its cover
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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See also
- abjudge
- abjudicate
- adjudicate
- judgment
- judicator
- judicial
- judiciary
- prejudice
- magistrate