Definition of "judge"

judge¹

/d͡ʒʌd͡ʒ/

noun
plural judges
1. A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
  Quotations
  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.
  1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Judicature”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret
2. A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
3. A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar.
4. A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.
5. (historical, biblical) A shophet, a temporary leader appointed in times of crisis in ancient Israel.

judge²

/d͡ʒʌd͡ʒ/

verb
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 (a person or matter).
2. (intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
3. (transitive) To judicially rule or determine.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To sentence to punishment, to judicially condemn.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To award judicially; to adjudge.
6. (transitive) To form an opinion on; to appraise.
  Quotations
  Let us be judged for what we attempted rather than what we achieved.
  c. 1921, Michael Collins, after the Anglo-Irish Treaty
7. (transitive, obsolete) To constitute a fitting appraisal or criterion of; to provide a basis for forming an opinion on.
  Quotations
  Noble and milde this Perſean ſeemes to be,If outward habit Iudge the inward man.
  c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, (please specify the page)
8. (intransitive) To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
9. (transitive) To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
10. (transitive, intransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.
  Quotations
  THE sun was up so high when I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock.
  1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […]
11. (transitive, intransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing; to be judgmental toward.
  Quotations
  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
  1993, Aerosmith, Livin' on the Edge
12. (transitive, intransitive) To govern as biblical judge or shophet (over some jurisdiction).
  Quotations
  And after him aroſe Iair a Gileadite, and iudged Iſrael twentie and two yeeres.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Judges 10:3
  And after him, Elon, a Zebulonite iudged Israel, and he iudged Israel ten yeeres.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Judges 12:11

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