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  • English Word Judas Definition The disciple who betrayed Christ. Hence: A treacherous person; one who betrays under the semblance of friendship.
  • English Word Judas Definition Treacherous; betraying.
  • English Word Judas-colored Definition Red; -- from a tradition that Judas Iscariot had red hair and beard.
  • English Word Juddock Definition See Jacksnipe.
  • English Word Judean Definition Of or pertaining to Judea.
  • English Word Judean Definition A native of Judea; a Jew.
  • English Word Judge Definition 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.
  • English Word Judge Definition 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.
  • English Word Judge Definition 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.
  • English Word Judge Definition One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years.
  • English Word Judge Definition The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges.
  • English Word Judge Definition To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence.
  • English Word Judge Definition 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.
  • English Word Judge Definition 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.
  • English Word Judge Definition To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties.
  • English Word Judge Definition To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom.
  • English Word Judge Definition To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.
  • English Word Judge Definition To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon.
  • English Word Judge Definition To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern.
  • English Word Judged Definition of Judge
  • English Word Judger Definition One who judges.
  • English Word Judgeship Definition The office of a judge.
  • English Word Judging Definition of Judge
  • English Word Judgment Definition The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence.
  • English Word Judgment Definition The power or faculty of performing such operations (see 1); esp., when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; good sense; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment.
  • English Word Judgment Definition The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
  • English Word Judgment Definition The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge; the mandate or sentence of God as the judge of all.
  • English Word Judgment Definition That act of the mind by which two notions or ideas which are apprehended as distinct are compared for the purpose of ascertaining their agreement or disagreement. See 1. The comparison may be threefold: (1) Of individual objects forming a concept. (2) Of concepts giving what is technically called a judgment. (3) Of two judgments giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as analytic, synthetic, and identical.
  • English Word Judgment Definition That power or faculty by which knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2.
  • English Word Judgment Definition A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment.