adjudge (redirected from adjudgments)

ad·judge  (-jj)

tr.v. ad·judged, ad·judg·ing, ad·judg·es

1.

a. To determine or decide by judicial procedure; adjudicate.

b. To order judicially; rule.

c. To award (damages, for example) by law.

2. To regard, consider, or deem: was adjudged incompetent.

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[Middle English ajugen, from Old French ajuger, from Latin adidicre; see adjudicate.]

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adjudge

Verb

[-judging, -judged] to declare someone to be something specified: my wife was adjudged to be the guilty party

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

adjudge - declare to be; "She was declared incompetent"; "judge held that the defendant was innocent" declare, hold pass judgment, evaluate, judge - form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people" acknowledge, admit - declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of; "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten" superannuate - declare to be obsolete bastardise, bastardize - declare a child to be illegitimate certify - declare legally insane call - declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee; "call a runner out" beatify - declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood; "On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican" canonize, saint, canonise - declare (a dead person) to be a saint; "After he was shown to have performed a miracle, the priest was canonized" pronounce, label, judge - pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here" strike down, cancel - declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law" formalise, formalize - make formal or official; "We formalized the appointment and gave him a title"

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adjudge

verb judge, determine, declare, decide, assign, pronounce, decree, apportion, adjudicate