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judge
English
Alternative forms
- judg (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- enPR: j?j, IPA(key): /d???d??/
- Rhymes: -?d?
Etymology 1
From Middle English juge, jugge, borrowed from Old French juge, from Latin i?dex. Displaced native Old English d?ma.
Noun
judge (plural judges)
- A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
- 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Judicature
- The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct the evidence; to moderate length, repetition, or impertinency of speech; to recapitulate, select, and collate the material points of that which hath been said; and to give the rule or sentence.
- 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Judicature
- A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
- A person officiating at a sports event or similar.
- A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.
Synonyms
- (one who judges in an official capacity): magistrate (now usually of low rank); justice (now usually of high rank); justiciar, justiciary (historic, of high rank); Chief Justice, Chief Justiciar, Capital Justiciary, Chief Justiciary, justiciar, justiciary (of the highest rank); justicer (obsolete); sheriff, bailiff, reeve (historic or obsolete); doomsman (obsolete)
- (one who judges generally): deemer, deemster
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Assamese: ?? (zoz)
- ? Bengali: ?? (jôj)
- ? Hindustani:
- Hindi: ?? (jaj)
- Urdu: ??? (jaj)
- ? Oriya: ??? (jôj)
- ? Tamil: ????? (ja?ji)
- ? Telugu: ???? (ja?ja)
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English jugen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman juger, from Old French jugier, from Latin i?dic?re.
Mostly displaced native deem.
Verb
judge (third-person singular simple present judges, present participle judging, simple past and past participle judged)
- (transitive) To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.
- (intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
- (transitive) To form an opinion on.
- c. 1921, Michael Collins, after the Anglo-Irish Treaty:
- Let us be judged for what we attempted rather than what we achieved.
- c. 1921, Michael Collins, after the Anglo-Irish Treaty:
- (intransitive) To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
- (transitive) To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
- (intransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.
- THE sun was up so high when I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock.
- (transitive, intransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.
- 1993, Aerosmith, Livin' on the Edge
- There's something wrong with the world today; the light bulb's getting dim.
- There's meltdown in the sky.
- If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin,
- Mister, you're a better man than I
- 1993, Aerosmith, Livin' on the Edge
Conjugation
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:deem
Derived terms
- forejudge
- misjudge
- unjudge
- you can't judge a book by its cover
Translations
See also
- abjudge
- abjudicate
- adjudicate
- judgment
- judicator
- judicial
- judiciary
- prejudice
- magistrate
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authority
English
Alternative forms
- authourity, authoritie, autority, auctoritie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English auctorite, autorite (“authority, book or quotation that settles an argument”), from Old French auctorité, from Latin stem of auct?rit?s (“invention, advice, opinion, influence, command”), from auctor (“master, leader, author”). For the presence of the h, compare the etymology of author.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???????ti/, /???????ti/
- (US) IPA(key): /??????ti/, /??????ti/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /???t???ti/
- Hyphenation: au?thor?i?ty
- Rhymes: -???ti
Noun
authority (countable and uncountable, plural authorities)
- (uncountable) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- (used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government.
- (countable) A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject.
- 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman
- To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
- 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman
- Government-owned agency which runs a revenue-generating activity.
- New York Port Authority
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- have something on good authority
References
- authority at OneLook Dictionary Search
- authority in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- authority in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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