different between adjudge vs addeem

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French ajugier, from Latin adiudicare. Doublet of adjudicate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d??d?/
• Rhymes: -?d?

Verb

adjudge (third-person singular simple present adjudges, present participle adjudging, simple past and past participle adjudged)

1. To declare to be.
2. To deem or determine to be.
3. 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 rank adjudged by toil-won merit,

     Content that from employment springs

Related terms

• abjudge
• adjudicate
• judge

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English *ademen, from Old English ?d?man (“to judge, adjudge, doom, deem, try, adjudicate”); equivalent to a- +? deem.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?m

Verb

addeem (third-person singular simple present addeems, present participle addeeming, simple past and past participle addeemed)

1. (transitive, now rare, archaic) To adjudge; to try, test. [from 8th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.3:

     So unto him they did addeeme the prise / Of all that Tryumph.

   • 1892, Willard Smith Gibbons, Charles Hood Mills, William Henry Silvernail, Digest of the New York State reporter:

     Legacy is not addeemed by gift before execution of will.
2. (transitive) To deem; think; judge; esteem; account; determine; be of an opinion.

Anagrams

• demade, meaded