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and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose. The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct the evidence; to moderate length, repetition, or impertinency of speech; to recapitulate, select, and collate the material points of that which hath been said; and to give the rule or sentence.…

Created by judges or judicial decision; -- applied esp. to law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of statutes so as extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc., and often used opprobriously of acts of judicial interpretation considered as doing this.…

One who judges. Sir K. Digby.

The office of a judge.

To take away by judicial decision. [R.]

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

One who adjudges.

To judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof; to prejudge.

A judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question.

Not well judged; unwise.

To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.

To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a universal clamor." Swift.

To judge again; to re Rejudge his acts, and dignify disgrace. Pope.

against; to reject solemnly. [Obs.] I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul Refuse you for my judge. Shak.

To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge. [Obs.] Ash.

An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent. [Obs.]

To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem. Accounting that God was able to raise him up. Heb. xi. 19.

timony depends on its accuracy. The professed end [of logic] is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy. Reid. The accuracy with which the piston fits the sides. Lardner.

Inability to judge.

tainder. -- Act of bankruptcy (Law), an act of a debtor which renders him liable to be adjudged a bankrupt. -- Act of faith. (Ch. Hist.) See Auto-da-Fé. -- Act of God (Law), an inevitable accident; such extraordinary interruption of the usual course of events as is not to be looked for in advance, and against which…