Meaning and Origin
What does the name Judge mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
- [Law] 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."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." [Bacon.]
- 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."A man who is no judge of law may be a good judge of poetry, or eloquence, or of the merits of a painting." [Dryden.]
- 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.
- [Jewish Hist] One of the supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years.
- pl.The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges.synonyms: Judge Umpire Arbitrator Referee.
Usage: A judge, in the legal sense, is a magistrate appointed to determine questions of law. An umpire is a person selected to decide between two or more who contend for a prize. An arbitrator is one chosen to allot to two contestants their portion of a claim, usually on grounds of equity and common sense. A referee is one to whom a case is referred for final adjustment. Arbitrations and references are sometimes voluntary, sometimes appointed by a court.
Etymology: OE. juge, OF. & F. juge, fr. OF. jugier, F. juger, to judge. See Judge (v. i.)
- To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence."The Lord judge between thee and me." [Gen. xvi. 5.]"Father, who art judge Of all things made, and judgest only right!" [Milton.]
- 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."Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all." [Shak.]
- 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." Judge not according to the appearance." [John vii. 24.]"She is wise if I can judge of her." [Shak.]
Etymology: OE. jugen, OF. jugier, F. juger, L. judicare, fr. judex judge; jus law or right + dicare to proclaim, pronounce, akin to dicere to say. See Just (a.), and Diction, and cf. Judicial
- To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties."Chaos [shall judgethe strife." [Milton.]
- To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom."God shall judge the righteous and the wicked." [Eccl. iii. 7.]"To bring my whole cause 'fore his holiness, And to be judged by him." [Shak.]
- To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward." Judge not, that ye be not judged." [Matt. vii. 1.]
- To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon."If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord." [Acts xvi. 15.]
- To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern.(Obs)"Make us a king to judge us." [1 Sam. viii. 5.]
- An authority who is able to estimate worth or quality
- A public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
- Form a critical opinion of ("I cannot judge some works of modern art")
- Determine the result of (a competition)
- Judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- Pronounce judgment on
- Put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of ("The judge tried both father and son in separate trials")
From Middle English jugge, juge (“judge”, noun), juggen, jugen (“to judge”, verb), from Old French juge (“judge”, noun), juger (“to judge”, verb), ultimately from Latin iūdicare (“pass judgement upon”), from iūdicem (“accusative of iūdex”), from iūdex (“judge”), from iūs (“law”) + dicus (“speaker”). The verb has mostly displaced native English deem and doom.
- A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
- A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
- A person officiating at a sports or similar event.
- At a boxing match the decision of the is final.
- A person whose opinion on a subject is respected.
- He is a good of wine.
- They say he is a poor of character considering all the unreliable friends he has made.