Definition of Judge

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Definition of Judge

Judge

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.

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.

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.

One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years.

The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges.

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

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.

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.

To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties.

To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom.

To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.

To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon.

To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern.

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Judge Quotations

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Dalai Lama

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Wayne Dyer

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Ronald Reagan

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Abraham Lincoln

I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.
Joel Osteen

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.
Napoleon Hill

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy

Judge Translations

judge in Afrikaans is oordeel
judge in Dutch is berechten, oordelen, beoordelen
judge in Finnish is tuomita
judge in French is juge, juger
judge in Italian is giudice, giudicare
judge in Latin is pendo, judico, iudex, reputo
judge in Portuguese is juiz
judge in Spanish is juez, togado, juzgar

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