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Webster 1913 Edition
Adjudge
Ad-judge′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Adjudged
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Adjudging
.] [OE.
ajugen
, OF. ajugier
, fr. L. adjudicare
; ad
+ judicare
to judge. See Judge
, and cf. Adjudicate
.] 1.
To award judicially in the case of a controverted question;
as, the prize was
. adjudged
to the victor2.
To determine in the exercise of judicial power; to decide or award judicially; to adjudicate;
as, the case was
. adjudged
in the November term3.
To sentence; to condemn.
Without reprieve,
For want of well pronouncing Shibboleth.
adjudged
to deathFor want of well pronouncing Shibboleth.
Milton.
4.
To regard or hold; to judge; to deem.
He
adjudged
him unworthy of his friendship. Knolles.
Syn. – To decree; award; determine; adjudicate; ordain; assign.
Webster 1828 Edition
Adjudge
ADJUDGE'
, v.t.To decide, or determine, in the case of a controverted question; to decree by a judicial opinion; used appropriately of courts of law and equity.
The case was adjudged in Hilary term.
The prize was adjudged to the victor; a criminal was adjudged to suffer death.
It has been used in the sense of to judge; as, he adjudged him unworthy of his friendship. But this sense is unusual.
Definition 2024
adjudge
adjudge
English
Verb
adjudge (third-person singular simple present adjudges, present participle adjudging, simple past and past participle adjudged)
- To declare to be.
- To deem or determine to be.
- To award judicially; to assign.
- XIX c., James Russell Lowell, The Heritage
- What doth the poor man's son inherit?
- Wishes o'erjoyed with humble things,
- A rank adjudged by toil-won merit,
- Content that from employment springs
- XIX c., James Russell Lowell, The Heritage
Translations
declare to be
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deem or determine to be
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