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A public officer who is invested with authority to hear
and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between
parties in courts held for that purpose. |
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One who has skill, knowledge, or experience, sufficient
to decide on the merits of a question, or on the quality or value of
anything; one who discerns properties or relations with skill and
readiness; a connoisseur; an expert; a critic. |
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A person appointed to decide in a/trial of skill, speed,
etc., between two or more parties; an umpire; as, a judge in a horse
race. |
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One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military
powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years. |
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The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the
Book of Judges. |
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To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a
judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence. |
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To assume the right to pass judgment on another; to sit in
judgment or commendation; to criticise or pass adverse judgment upon
others. See Judge, v. t., 3. |
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To compare facts or ideas, and perceive their relations
and attributes, and thus distinguish truth from falsehood; to
determine; to discern; to distinguish; to form an opinion about. |
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To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a
court, or a controversy between two parties. |
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To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom. |
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To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment
upon; to be censorious toward. |
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To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think;
to reckon. |
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To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to
govern. |