(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.
(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.
(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.
(v. i.) One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military
powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years.
(v. i.) The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the
Book of Judges.
(a.) To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a
judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence.
(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.
(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.
(v. t.) To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a
court, or a controversy between two parties.
(v. t.) To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom.
(v. t.) To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment
upon; to be censorious toward.
(v. t.) To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think;
to reckon.
(v. t.) To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to
govern.
