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To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor.

One who adjudges.

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To award; to adjudge. [Obs.] "Unto him they did addeem the prise." Spenser.

To adjudge. [Obs.] Spenser.

To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.

To decree; to adjudge. [Archaic] Ld. Lytton.

determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant. To review The wrongful sentence, and award a new. Dryden.

To adjudge; to assign by authority. The second was to Triamond behight. Spenser.

To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.

Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.

Deserving chastisement; punishable. [Obs.] He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell.

To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censhure. He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him. Shak.

To decree; to adjudge.

Stephen. The paternity of dyslogistic -- no bantling, but now almost a centenarian -- is adjudged to that genius of common sense, Jeremy Bentham. Fitzed. Hall.

To attribute; to assign; to adjudge. I don't wonder at people's giving him to me as a lover. Sheridan.

A follower of John Huss, the Bohemian reformer, who was adjudged a heretic and burnt alive in 1415.

To adjudge as one's own (the sin or righteousness) of another; as, the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us. It was imputed to him for righteousness. Rom. iv. 22. They merit Imputed shall absolve them who renounce Their own, both righteous and unrighteous deeds. Milton.

To determine, adjudge, or record (a plaintiff) as having dropped his suit, upon his withdrawal or failure to follow it up. "When two are joined in a writ, and one is nonsuited." Z. Swift.

istic to another. It the jury found that the party slain was of English race, it had been adjudged felony. Sir J. Davies.