Dictionary

adjudge en · VERB

Pronunciation

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• /əˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒ/

Etymology

From Middle English ajugen, adjugen, from Old French ajugier, from Latin adiudicare. Doublet of adjudicate.

Meanings

1. To declare to be.
2. To deem or determine to be.
   • City felt they were victims of an injustice after 16 minutes when Silva's free-kick floated straight in, but French official Stephane Lannoy adjudged that Joleon Lescott had fouled keeper Jorg Butt. 2011 December 7, Phil McNulty, “Man City 2 - 0 Bayern Munich”, in BBC Sport:
3. To award judicially; to assign.
   • […] who are to stand as his accusers before the high court of the Areopagus, inaugurated by the daughter of Zeus, the goddess of wisdom, to adjudge his unhappy case. 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 151:
   • 19th c., James Russell Lowell, The Heritage What doth the poor man's son inherit? Wishes o'erjoyed with humble things, A rank adjudged by toil-won merit, Content that from employment springs
4. To sentence; to condemn.
   • on failure of payment of the fines adjudged against them […] for which he shall be so adjudged to imprisonment 1795 February 28, “An act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions and to repeal the act now in force for those purposes”, in Library of Congress:
   • no man ought to be adjudged to death, but by the Laws established in this your Realm 1629, “The Petition Exhibited to his Majesty by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, concerning divers Rights and Liberties of the Subjects, with the Kings Majesties Royal Answer thereunto in full Parliament”, in University of Michigan Library:

Forms

Deriveds

unadjudged · adjudgeable · adjudger

Relateds

judge · adjudicate · abjudge

Synonyms

try · regard as · consider · rule on · attest · assert · avouch · asseverate · deem · condemn · dictate · judge · define · see · deem · appraise · arbitrate · hold · initialize · construct · sentence · swear · hear · doom · doom · disclose · judge · convict · doom · judge · confirm · state · find · count · proclaim · judge · dub · esteem · judge · certify · look upon · convict · deem · account · avow · interpret · adjudicate · damn · esteem · make known · inform · think of · respect · declare · adjudge · swear · claim · assert · make known · depone · view as · adjudge · deem · aver · look upon · rule on · censure · settle

Translations (35)

cmn 定罪 (to sentence; to condemn) · hu tart (to deem or determine to be) · pl skazywać (to sentence; to condemn) · cmn 宣告為 /宣告为 (to declare to be) · cmn 判決 /判决 (to sentence; to condemn) · hu ítél (to declare to be) · pl orzec (to declare to be) · pl zasądzić (to award judicially; to assign) · hu mond (to deem or determine to be) · fi vakuuttaa (to declare to be) · hu ítél (to award judicially; to assign) · cmn 裁定為 /裁定为 (to deem or determine to be) · hu tekint (to deem or determine to be) · hu megítél (to award judicially; to assign) · cmn 判給 /判给 (to award judicially; to assign) · pl sądzić (to award judicially; to assign) · fi tuomita (to sentence; to condemn) · ga breithnigh (to deem or determine to be) · pl uznać (to deem or determine to be) · fi julistaa (to declare to be) · fi määrätä (to award judicially; to assign) · fi tuomita (to deem or determine to be) · pl uznawać (to deem or determine to be) · hu talál (to deem or determine to be) · pl rozstrzygnąć (to deem or determine to be) · hu odaítél (to award judicially; to assign) · ga breithnigh (to declare to be) · hu nyilvánít (to declare to be) · pl zasądzać (to award judicially; to assign) · pl rozstrzygać (to deem or determine to be) · pl skazać (to sentence; to condemn) · pl orzec (to award judicially; to assign) · hu ítél (to deem or determine to be) · pl orzekać (to award judicially; to assign) · pl orzekać (to declare to be)