Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word JUDGE
JUDGE
Definitions of JUDGE
- A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
- A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
- A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.
- A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar.
- (historical, biblical) A shophet, a temporary leader appointed in times of crisis in ancient Israel.
- (transitive) To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on (a person or matter).
- (intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
- (transitive) To judicially rule or determine.
- (transitive, obsolete) To sentence to punishment, to judicially condemn.
- (transitive, obsolete) To award judicially; to adjudge.
- (transitive) To form an opinion on; to appraise.
- (transitive, obsolete) To constitute a fitting appraisal or criterion of; to provide a basis for forming an opinion on.
- (intransitive) To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
- (transitive) To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
- (ambitransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.
- (ambitransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing; to be judgmental toward.
- (ambitransitive) To govern as biblical judge or shophet (over some jurisdiction).
- A occupations surname from occupations.
- (Christianity) epithet of God or Jesus in his role as supreme arbiter
- A unincorporated community in Olmsted County, Minnesota, USA, named after Edward Judge.
- A unincorporated community in Osage County, Missouri, USA, named for a local judge who owned the town site.
Number of letters
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Is palindrome
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Examples of Using JUDGE in a Sentence
- His conduct, along with that of his brother, as a judge in Beersheba, to which office his father had appointed him, led to popular discontent, and ultimately provoked the people to demand a monarchy.
- The adversarial system or adversary system or accusatorial system or accusatory system is a legal system used in the common law countries where two advocates represent their parties' case or position before an impartial person or group of people, usually a judge or jury, who attempt to determine the truth and pass judgment accordingly.
- The series follows Beavis and Butt-Head, both voiced by Judge, a pair of teenage slackers characterized by their apathy, lack of intelligence, lowbrow humor and love for hard rock and heavy metal.
- The stories follow a consistent pattern: the people are unfaithful to Yahweh; he therefore delivers them into the hands of their enemies; the people repent and entreat Yahweh for mercy, which he sends in the form of a leader or champion (a "judge"; see shophet); the judge delivers the Israelites from oppression and they prosper, but soon they fall again into unfaithfulness and the cycle is repeated.
- Its purpose is to enable the partnership to explore its possession of aces, kings and in some variants, the queen of trumps to judge whether a slam would be a feasible contract.
- The head of the church and the See of Alexandria is the pope of Alexandria on the Holy Apostolic See of Saint Mark, who also carries the title of Father of fathers, Shepherd of shepherds, Ecumenical Judge and the 13th among the Apostles.
- In jurisprudence, double jeopardy is a procedural defence (primarily in common law jurisdictions) that prevents an accused person from being tried again on the same (or similar) charges following an acquittal or conviction and in rare cases prosecutorial and/or judge misconduct in the same jurisdiction.
- 800 – A council is convened in the Vatican, at which Charlemagne is to judge the accusations against Pope Leo III.
- Ethnocentrism in social science and anthropology—as well as in colloquial English discourse—means to apply one's own culture or ethnicity as a frame of reference to judge other cultures, practices, behaviors, beliefs, and people, instead of using the standards of the particular culture involved.
- An expert witness, particularly in common law countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States, is a person whose opinion by virtue of education, training, certification, skills or experience, is accepted by the judge as an expert.
- Frederick Charles Copleston was born on 10 April 1907 at Claremont in the parish of Trull, near Taunton in Somerset, England, the eldest son of Frederick Selwyn Copleston (1850–1935), a judge of the High Court in Rangoon, Burma, by his second wife, Norah Margaret Little.
- Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696–27 December 1782) was a Scottish writer, philosopher and judge who played a major role in Scotland's Agricultural Revolution.
- During direct examination, if the examining attorney who called the witness finds that their testimony is antagonistic or contrary to the legal position of their client, the attorney may request that the judge declare the witness "hostile".
- Jury instructions, also known as charges or directions, are a set of legal guidelines given by a judge to a jury in a court of law.
- Judge Joseph Dredd is a fictional character created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra.
- Mychal Fallon Judge, OFM (born Robert Emmett Judge; May 11, 1933 – September 11, 2001), was an American Franciscan friar and Catholic priest who served as a chaplain to the New York City Fire Department.
- After his death, King Minos became a judge of the dead in the underworld alongside Rhadamanthus and Aeacus.
- The song was originally commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony; Calixa Lavallée composed the music, after which French-language words were written by the poet and judge Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier.
- It is an error by the trier of law (judge), or the trier of fact (the jury, or the judge if it is a bench trial), or malfeasance by one of the trying attorneys, which results in an unfair trial.
- Retention election, in the United States court system, a process whereby a judge is periodically subject to a vote in order to remain in the position of judge.
- Return on margin, a judge of performance based on the net gain or net loss compared to the perceived risk.
- Roy Laverne Stephenson (1917–1982), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
- It prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and sets requirements for issuing warrants: warrants must be issued by a judge or magistrate, justified by probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and must particularly describe the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.
- James Dickson claimed direct lineage from the painter William Hogarth, and from Judge John Waite, the man who sentenced King Charles I to death.
- March 12 – Innocent I dies after a 16-year reign in which he has restored relations between the sees of Rome and Antioch, enforced celibacy of the clergy, and maintained the right of the bishop of Rome to judge appeals from other churches.
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