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Judgment seat

   Also found in: Legal 0.01 sec.
the seat or bench on which judges sit in court; hence, a court; a tribunal.

See also: Judgment



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All the well-known people of that period, from Alexander and Napoleon to Madame de Stael, Photius, Schelling, Fichte, Chateaubriand, and the rest, pass before their stern judgment seat and are acquitted or condemned according to whether they conduced to progress or to reaction.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Shimerda at `Thy judgment seat, which is also Thy mercy seat.
My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context
The old judgment seat stood back against the wall, and our table was the one at which the justices had been wont to sit.
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
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