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Shak.

3. To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Matt. vii. 1.

4. To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon.

If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord.

Acts xvi. 15.

5. To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern. [Obs.]

Make us a king to judge us.

1 Sam. viii. 5.

Judg"er (?), n. One who judges. Sir K. Digby.

Judge"ship (?), n. The office of a judge.

Judg"ment (?), n. [OE. jugement, F. jugement, LL. judicamentum, fr. L. judicare. See Judge, v. i.]

1. The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence.

I oughte deme, of skilful jugement, That in the salte sea my wife is deed.

Chaucer.

2. The power or faculty of performing such operations (see 1); esp., when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; good sense; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment.

He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment.

Ps. lxxii. 2.

Hernia. I would my father look'd but with my eyes. Theseus. Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.

Shak.

3. The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.

She in my judgment was as fair as you.

Shak.

Who first his judgment asked, and then a place.

Pope.

4. The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge; the mandate or sentence of God as the judge of all.

In judgments between rich and poor, consider not what the poor man needs, but what is his own.