different between judicial vs judge

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin i?dici?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?u?d???l/
• Rhymes: -???l
• Hyphenation: ju?di?cial

Adjective

judicial (comparative more judicial, superlative most judicial)

1. Of or relating to the administration of justice.
2. Of or relating to the court system or the judicial branch of government.
3. (Ireland, historical) specified by a civil bill court under the terms of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881

   judicial rent, judicial lease

4. Of or relating to judgeship or the judiciary, the collective body of judges.
5. Of or relating to sound judgment; judicious (but see Usage notes).

Synonyms

• justiciary

Usage notes

Many editors would maintain the differentiation between judicial and judicious and thus would advise that writers should not confuse judicial (having to do with justice and judiciary systems) with judicious (showing good judgment). In adhering to this prescription, a phrase such as judicious use of X (wisely chosen use of X) is not interchangeable with judicial use of X (use of X by the courts). Descriptively, judicial is polysemic, with one of its senses meaning judicious, but the purpose of the prescription is to avoid having some readers sense awkwardness or apparent catachresis in the poorly chosen (albeit descriptively not wrong) usage; the editorial idea is that regardless of correctness or incorrectness, it is preferable to use the better/clearer word instead and thus avoid any chance of reader annoyance or reader confusion/missense.

Derived terms

Related terms

• judiciary
• judge

Translations

Noun

judicial (uncountable)

1. That branch of government which is responsible for maintaining the courts of law and for the administration of justice.

   Synonym: judiciary

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin i?dici?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?u.di.si?al/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /d??u.di.si?al/

Adjective

judicial (masculine and feminine plural judicials)

1. judicial

Derived terms

• extrajudicial
• judicialment

Related terms

• judici
• jutge
• jutjar

Further reading

• “judicial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “judicial” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “judicial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “judicial” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin i?dici?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?udi?sjaw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?uði?sja?/

Adjective

judicial m or f (plural judiciais, comparable)

1. judicial

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:judicial.

Derived terms

• extrajudicial
• judicialmente

Related terms

• judiciário
• juízo
• juiz
• julgar

Further reading

• “judicial” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “judicial” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin i?dici?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /xudi??jal/, [xu.ð?i??jal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /xudi?sjal/, [xu.ð?i?sjal]

Adjective

judicial (plural judiciales)

1. judicial

Derived terms

Related terms

• juicio
• juez
• juzgar

Further reading

• “judicial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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)

2. 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.

3. A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
4. A person officiating at a sports event or similar.

5. 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)

1. (transitive) To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.

2. (intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.

3. (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.

4. (intransitive) To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.

5. (transitive) To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.

6. (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.

7. (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

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