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Liberal in judging of others; disposed to look on the best side, and to avoid harsh judgment.

Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination. I imagine they [the apothegms of Cæsar] were collected with judgment and choice. Bacon.

close. Half stifled by the closeness of the room. Swift. We rise not against the piercing judgment of Augustus, nor the extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius. Bacon. An affectation of closeness and covetousness. Addison.

of the Church of England, used on Ash Wednesday, containing a recital of God's anger and judgments against sinners.

formed in the mind; a concept; a notion; a universal; the product of a rational belief or judgment. See Concept. He [Herodotus] says that the sun draws or attracts the water; a metaphorical term obviously intended to denote some more general and abstract conception than that of the visible operation which the word prim…

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.

ults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt. The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it. Matt. xii. 42.

disapprobation. In every other sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like. Paley.

To strengthen in judgment or purpose. Confirmed, then, I resolve Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe. Milton.

An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion. He [Herodotus] would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. Milton.

h 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 thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Shak. As science means knowledge, conscience etymological…

Agreeing in mind; accordant. The consentient judgment of the church. Bp. Pearson.

ch an asylum. Dryden. Some considerations which are necessary to the forming of a correct judgment. Macaulay.

ity; a question of right. [Obs.] When any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment. 2 Sam. xv. 2.

nd means May fit us to our shape. Shak. With all brief and plain conveniency, Let me have judgment. Shak.

mblies, . . . and to them preached Conversion and repentance, as to souls In prison under judgments imminent. Milton.

A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal. Conviction may accrue two ways. Blackstone.

Examination of consequences; exercise of deliberate judgment; prudence. They all confess, therefore, in the working of that first cause, that counsel is used. Hooker.

ished from the counsel or jury, or both. Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment. Shak.

A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter. [Colloq.]