Definitions for the word "judge" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. v. i.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. i.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. i.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. i.
One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. i.
The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. a.
To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. a.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. t.
To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. t.
To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v. t.
To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. v. t.
To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. v. t.
To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. n.
1 public official appointed to hear and try legal cases. 2 person appointed to decide in a contest, dispute, etc. 3 a person who decides a question. B person regarded as having judgement of a specified type (am no judge; good judge of art). v. (-ging) 1 form an opinion or judgement (about); estimate, appraise. 2 act as a judge (of). 3 a try (a case) at law. B pronounce sentence on. 4 (often foll. By to + infin. Or that + clause) conclude, consider. [latin judex judic-]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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