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–n.1. a public official appointed or elected to hear and decide cases in a law court: »
The judge sentenced the speeding driver to pay a fine and hear a lecture on dangerous driving.
2. a person chosen to settle a dispute or to decide who wins a race or contest: »Sole judge of truth (Alexander Pope).
3. a person who can decide on how good a thing is: »a good judge of dogs, a judge of character, a poor judge of poetry.
4. a ruler in ancient Israel, before the time of the kings.╂[< Old French juge < Latin jūdex, -icis < jūs law + dīcere say]–v.t.1. a) to hear and decide (cases) in a law court: »The court was unable to judge the case before all the evidence was put before it.
b) to decree; order.2. to settle (a dispute); decide on (in a contest): »The officials of the boys' club judged the races and other sporting events.
3. to make up one's mind about; form an opinion or estimate about: »to judge the merits of a book, to judge a man innocent until proven guilty.
4. to think; suppose; conclude; »I judged that you had forgotten to come. Tomorrow, then, I judge a happy day (Shakespeare).
SYNONYM(S): deem, regard, consider.5. to criticize; blame: »You had little cause to judge him so harshly. Judge not, that ye be not judged (Matthew 7:1).
SYNONYM(S): condemn.6. to govern, as one of the judges of ancient Israel.–v.i.1. to act as judge: »God must judge 'twixt man and me (Robert Browning).
2. to make up one's mind; form an opinion or estimate.╂[Middle English juggen < Anglo-French juger, Old French jugier < Latin jūdicāre < jūdex, -icis < jūs law + dīcere say]–judge´like´, adjective.–judg´er, noun.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
