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To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages. She was cast to be hanged. Jeffrey. Were the case referred to any competent judge, they would inevitably be cast. Dr. H. More.

ial cause, the sufficiency of which is to be left to those whose duty and office it is to decide upon it. -- Challenge to the polls, an exception taken to any one or more of the individual jurors returned. -- Peremptory challenge, a privilege sometimes allowed to defendants, of challenging a certain number of jurors…

To make a selection; to decide. They had only to choose between implicit obedience and open rebellion. Prescott.

A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.

Jurisdiction, or the power given by law to hear and decide controversies.

To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide. But no frail man, however great or high, Can be concluded blest before he die. Addison. Is it concluded he shall be protector Shak.

The faculty, power, or inward principle which decides as to the character of one's own actions, purposes, and affections, warning against and condemning that which is wrong, and approving and prompting to that which is right; the moral faculty passing judgment on one's self; the moral sense. My conscience hath a thousa…

Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. Contentious jurisdiction (Eng. Eccl. Law), jurisdiction over matters in controversy between parties, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed or controverted.

contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate. Some controverted points had decided according to the sense of the best jurists. Macaulay.

The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point. This hour's the very crisis of your fate. Dryden. The very times of crisis for the fate of the country. Brougham.

To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the deal or trump, or to schange the order of the cards to be dealt. To cut across, to pass over or through in the most direct way; as, to cut across a field. -- To cut and run, to make off suddenly and quickly; -- from the cutting of a ship's cable, when there is n…

Shaped like a boat; (Bot.) elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as the glumes of many grasses.

To fight out; to contest; to decide by combat. [Obs.] "To darrain the battle." Chaucer .

To perceive, discern, or decide. [Obs.] Granmer.

Capable of being decided; determinable.

The quality of being decided; prompt and fixed determination; unwavering firmness; as, to manifest great decision.

Able to decide or determine; having a tendency to decide. [R.]

gment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.

To decide; to judge; to sentence; to condemn. [Obs.] Claudius . . . Was demed for to hang upon a tree. Chaucer.

A judge in the Isle of Man who decides controversies without process. Cowell.