FromMiddle Englishajugen,adjugen, fromOld Frenchajugier, fromLatinadiudicare.Doublet ofadjudicate.
adjudge (third-person singular simple presentadjudges,present participleadjudging,simple past and past participleadjudged)
- Todeclare to be.
- Todeem ordetermine to be.
2011 December 7, Phil McNulty, “Man City 2 - 0 Bayern Munich”, inBBC Sport[1]:City felt they were victims of an injustice after 16 minutes when Silva's free-kick floated straight in, but French official Stephane Lannoyadjudged that Joleon Lescott had fouled keeper Jorg Butt.
- To award judicially; to assign.
- 19th c., James Russell Lowell,The Heritage
- What doth the poor man's son inherit?
- Wishes o'erjoyed with humble things,
- A rankadjudged by toil-won merit,
- Content that from employment springs
- Tosentence; tocondemn.
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”, inLibrary of Congress[2]:on failure of payment of the finesadjudged against them[…] for which he shall be soadjudged to imprisonment
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”, inUniversity of Michigan Library[3]:no man ought to beadjudged to death, but by the Laws established in this your Realm
to award judicially; to assign
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