Judge

noun judges · judg · iudge

1. A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice. 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.
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; referee. At a boxing match, the decision of the judges is final.
4. A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion. She is a good judge of wine.
5. historical A shophet, a temporary leader appointed in times of crisis in ancient Israel.

Similar: doomsman, judg, judge, justice, justicer, justiciar, justiciary

verb judges · judging · judged · judg · iudge

1. transitive To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on (a person or matter). A higher power will judge you after you are dead.
2. intransitive To sit in judgment, to act as judge. Justices in this country judge without appeal.
3. transitive To judicially rule or determine.
4. obsolete, transitive To sentence to punishment, to judicially condemn. He was judged to die for his crimes.
5. obsolete, transitive To award judicially; to adjudge.
6. transitive To form an opinion on; to appraise. I judge a man’s character by the cut of his suit.
7. obsolete, transitive To constitute a fitting appraisal or criterion of; to provide a basis for forming an opinion on. Noble and milde this Perſean ſeemes to be, If outward habit Iudge the inward man.
8. intransitive To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc. We cannot both be right: you must judge between us.
9. transitive To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose. I judge it safe to leave the house once again.
10. ambitransitive To form an opinion; to infer. I judge from the sky that it might rain later.
11. ambitransitive To criticize or label another person or thing; to be judgmental toward. 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
12. ambitransitive To govern as biblical judge or shophet (over some jurisdiction). And after him aroſe Iair a Gileadite, and iudged Iſrael twentie and two yeeres.

proper noun Judges

1. countable, uncountable A surname originating as an occupation.
2. countable, uncountable epithet of God or Jesus in his role as supreme arbiter Wak’d by the trumpet’s sound, I from my grave must rise, And see the Judge with glory crown’d, And see the flaming skies.
3. countable, uncountable A male given name of rare usage
4. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Olmsted County, Minnesota, United States, named after Edward Judge.
5. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Osage County, Missouri, United States, named for a local judge who owned the town site.

noun Judges

1. The title of a judge. “I am saddened and disappointed in the way Judge Ehrlich behaved on the video. Her behavior cannot be condoned,” Tuter said.