(v. i.) A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose.
(v. i.) One who has skill, knowledge, or experience, sufficient to decide on the merits of a question, or on the quality or value of anything; one who discerns properties or relations with skill and readiness; a connoisseur; an expert; a critic.
(v. i.) A person appointed to decide in a/trial of skill, speed, etc., between two or more parties; an umpire; as, a judge in a horse race.
(v. i.) One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years.
(v. i.) The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges.
(a.) To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence.
(a.) To assume the right to pass judgment on another; to sit in judgment or commendation; to criticise or pass adverse judgment upon others. See Judge, v. t., 3.
(v. t.) To compare facts or ideas, and perceive their relations and attributes, and thus distinguish truth from falsehood; to determine; to discern; to distinguish; to form an opinion about.
(v. t.) To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties.
(v. t.) To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom.
(v. t.) To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.
(v. t.) To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon.
(v. t.) To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
(3) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
(4) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
(5) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
(6) Significant differences between laryngectomee and nonlaryngectomee judges were found when rating alaryngeal speakers, but not when rating normal, laryngeal speakers.
(7) In a control scheme for enzootic-pneumonia-free herds, 43 herds developed enzootic pneumonia, as judged by non-specific clinical and pathological criteria over 10 years.
(8) Over the course of 26-40 h the Na- and water-loaded cells returned to a normal state of hydration as judged by their density.
(9) Unfortunately more than three quantitative data cannot be judged simultaneously without help of mathematical methods.
(10) The final preparation was homogeneous and a single polypeptide of 18,000 daltons as judged by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(11) But I don't wish to be too hard on the judge for not taking that view.
(12) Eighty-five per cent of newly appointed judges in France are women because the men stay away.
(13) I think you should judge the government on its results in education."
(14) This RNA comprises approximately 3% of the purified RNA, as judged by RNA-DNA hybridization.
(15) Its recommendations were judged "correct" by the evaluating pathologist in 15 cases.
(16) Polypeptides of egg-borne Sendai virus (egg Sendai), which is biologically active on the basis of criteria of the infectivity for L cells and of hemolytic and cell fusion activities, were compared by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with those of L cell-borne (L Sendai) and HeLa cell-borne Sendai (HeLa Sendai) viruses, which are judged biologically inactive by the above criteria.
(17) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
(18) The cytoplasmic and membrane spanning domains of galactosyltransferase were found to be sufficient to retain all of the hybrid invariant chain in trans Golgi cisternae as judged by indirect immunofluorescence, treatment with brefeldin A and immuno-electron microscopy.
(19) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
(20) The morphometric data was not related to the age of the patient, disease duration, type of MND or muscle strength, thus suggesting that the progression and severity of MND and its prognosis cannot be judged on the basis of quadriceps muscle pathology alone.
Prejudge
Definition:
(v. t.) To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion, there is a reasonable chance that retirement plan assets in Delaware qualified plans are insulated from judgment creditors, but the best course is to maintain adequate insurance protection and follow an aggressive prejudgment strategy in serious cases so you don't have to resolve the issue in a bankruptcy proceeding.
(2) "I always think," he said, "that it is entirely wrong to prejudge the past."
(3) Timmermans said the commission’s investigation aimed to “clarify the facts in an objective way” and “start a dialogue with Polish authorities without prejudging” the outcome.
(4) By setting the bar lower from the outset, the EU is negatively prejudging the outcome of international climate negotiations and sending the wrong signal to the rest of world."
(5) It prejudges consideration by the procurator fiscal and has wrongly led the Scottish and UK media to report that I have been charged with an offence.
(6) Until that happens and until the court case is resolved, it is not for the BBC to prejudge matters and confer a legitimacy on the BNP that even they do not claim today."
(7) Seeing as those submarines will inescapably remain based in Scotland (no one pretends a bomb with a St George's cross on the top could fly) the move prejudges an independence referendum in a country where opposition to Trident is mainstream.
(8) Sturgeon said the deal would ensure, at the end of the transition period, “a fair review mechanism that did not prejudge the outcome and that would not default to a funding proposal that delivered population-driven detriment to the Scottish budget”.
(9) The US and Israel warn that UN membership for Palestine will prejudge the outcome of future peace talks and have hinted at retaliation.
(10) "We started out by wishing to give two grand prix not because you prejudge in any sense of the word," said Hegarty.
(11) Therefore it would be wrong to prejudge any findings although we recognise that these matters are of serious public concern."
(12) Heydon saw in the 2010 case of South Australia v Totani, also about control orders, another opportunity to pillory Soviet communism, Bills of Rights and Adelaide, in one splendid, if bewildering, paragraph : Lord Scott’s proposition, notable for its cautious unwillingness to prejudge the French and Soviet dictators, was much more specific than Lord Hope’s.
(13) The sweep by the UK Border Agency, mainly at rail stations, has caused a furore, partly because the Home Office issued press releases and Twitter updates saying how many "immigration offenders" had been arrested, apparently prejudging their guilt.
(14) Three colonial types (one prejudged as Escherichia) of lactose-positive rods were catalogued on each of the most commonly used selective media, MacConkey Agar, Endo Agar, and E M B Agar.
(15) Wyvill and Spurr will further claim that Southwood is incapable of hearing costs because he showed “actual or apprehended bias” by prejudging their conduct when they had no opportunity to defend themselves.
(16) The answer is, because in the US military it is a separate offense – unlawful command influence – if higher-level political officials or military officials prejudge a case and start talking about it in public.” “What actually happened on the ground?
(17) However, the Foreign Office directed ministers and parliamentary aides to abstain, saying it was wrong for the government to prejudge the issue or act as a jury on a case that may yet be referred to the international criminal court.
(18) But David Allen Green, legal correspondent for the New Statesman, tweeted: " For the @ukhomeoffice to say those arrested are already #immigrationoffenders is to prejudge their cases and possibly contempt. "
(19) Try telling a high court judge you hadn't prejudged matters if she reads an email like that.
(20) Asked about the possibility of arson, county Sheriff Bill Gore said earlier on Thursday he wouldn't prejudge the investigations.