judge

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: opted

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: opted

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: opted

4. v. i. One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years. Source: opted

5. v. i. The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges. Source: opted

6. a. To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence. Source: opted

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: opted

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: opted

9. v. t. To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties. Source: opted

10. v. t. To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom. Source: opted

11. v. t. To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward. Source: opted

12. v. t. To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon. Source: opted

13. v. t. To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern. Source: opted

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