Part 6189

<i>Milton.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom.</def>

<blockquote>God shall <b>judge</b> the righteous and the wicked. <i>Eccl. iii. 7.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>To bring my whole cause 'fore his holiness, And to be <b>judged</b> by him. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.</def>

<blockquote><b>Judge</b> not, that ye be not <b>judged</b>. <i>Matt. vii. 1.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon.</def>

<blockquote>If ye have <b>judged</b> me to be faithful to the Lord. <i>Acts xvi. 15.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Make us a king to <b>judge</b> us. <i>1 Sam. viii. 5.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Judger</h1> <Xpage=804>

<hw>Judg"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who judges.</def>

<i>Sir K. Digby.</i>

<h1>Judgeship</h1> <Xpage=804>

<hw>Judge"ship</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The office of a judge.</def>

<h1>Judgment</h1> <Xpage=804>

<hw>Judg"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>jugement</ets>, F. <ets>jugement</ets>, LL. <ets>judicamentum</ets>, fr. L. <ets>judicare</ets>. See <er>Judge</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>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>as, by careful <ex>judgment</ex> he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong <ex>judgments</ex> he forfeited confidence.</as></def>

<blockquote>I oughte deme, of skilful <b>jugement</b>, That in the salte sea my wife is deed. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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>as, a man of <ex>judgment</ex>; a politician without <ex>judgment</ex>.</as></def>

<blockquote>He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with <b>judgment</b>. <i>Ps. lxxii. 2.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Hernia</b>. I would my father look'd but with my eyes. <b>Theseus</b>. Rather your eyes must with his <b>judgment</b> look. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.</def>

<blockquote>She in my <b>judgment</b> was as fair as you. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Who first his <b>judgment</b> asked, and then a place. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>In <b>judgments</b> between rich and poor, consider not what the poor man needs, but what is his own. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the <b>judgment</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>