judge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: jŭj
ipa: /d͡ʒʌd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌdʒ
Forms: form: judges
form: judging
form: judged
form: judged
form: judg
form: iudge
Etymology: From Middle English jugen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman juger, from Old French jugier, from Latin iūdicāre. Doublet of judicate.
Mostly displaced native deem.
Senses: examples: text: A higher power will judge you after you are dead.
glosses: To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on (a person or matter).
examples: text: Justices in this country judge without appeal.
glosses: To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
glosses: To judicially rule or determine.
examples: text: He was judged to die for his crimes.
glosses: To sentence to punishment, to judicially condemn.
glosses: To award judicially; to adjudge.
examples: text: I judge a man’s character by the cut of his suit.
text: Let us be judged for what we attempted rather than what we achieved.
ref: c. 1921, Michael Collins, after the Anglo-Irish Treaty
glosses: To form an opinion on; to appraise.
examples: text: Noble and milde this Perſean ſeemes to be,
If outward habit Iudge the inward man.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
glosses: To constitute a fitting appraisal or criterion of; to provide a basis for forming an opinion on.
examples: text: We cannot both be right: you must judge between us.
glosses: To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
examples: text: I judge it safe to leave the house once again.
glosses: To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
examples: text: I judge from the sky that it might rain later.
text: THE sun was up so high when I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To form an opinion; to infer.
examples: text: There's something wrong with the world today; the light bulb's getting dim.
There's meltdown in the sky.
If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin,
Mister, you're a better man than I
ref: 1993, Aerosmith, Livin' on the Edge:
glosses: To criticize or label another person or thing; to be judgmental toward.
examples: text: And after him aroſe Iair a Gileadite, and iudged Iſrael twentie and two yeeres.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 10:3:
text: And after him, Elon, a Zebulonite iudged Israel, and he iudged Israel ten yeeres.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 12:11:
glosses: To govern as biblical judge or shophet (over some jurisdiction).
Derived terms: don't judge a book by its cover
forejudge
forjudge
ill-judged
judgeable
judge a book by its cover
judger
misjudge
never judge a book by its cover
nonjudged
overjudge
rejudge
underjudge
unjudge
unjudgeable
unjudged
you can't judge a book by its cover
Related terms: abjudge
abjudicate
adjudicate
judgment
judicator
judicial
judiciary
prejudice
magistrate