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adjudge

verb
/əˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒ/

Etymology

From Middle English ajugen, adjugen, from Old French ajugier, from Latin adiudicare. Doublet of adjudicate.

  1. derived from adiudicare
  2. derived from ajugier
  3. inherited from ajugen

Definitions

  1. To declare to be.

  2. To deem or determine to be.

    • City felt they were victims of an injustice after 16 minutes when Silva's free-kick floated straight in, but French official Stephane Lannoy adjudged that Joleon Lescott had fouled keeper Jorg Butt.

  3. To award judicially

    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
    • […] who are to stand as his accusers before the high court of the Areopagus, inaugurated by the daughter of Zeus, the goddess of wisdom, to adjudge his unhappy case.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To sentence

      To sentence; to condemn.

      • on failure of payment of the fines adjudged against them […] for which he shall be so adjudged to imprisonment
      • no man ought to be adjudged to death, but by the Laws established in this your Realm

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Derived

adjudgeable, adjudger, unadjudged

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at adjudge. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at adjudge. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at adjudge

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA