Judge: Definition and part of speech

Judge

  1. v. i. The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. v. i. One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years.
  6. v. t. To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom.
  7. v. t. To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.
  8. v. t. To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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