Word Finder - judge

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A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.

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A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.

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A person officiating at a sports event or similar.

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At a boxing match, the decision of the judges is final.

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A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.

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She is a good judge of wine.

I do not allow myself to judge him and would not have others do so.

The judge told us not to discuss the case.

I thought you didn't judge people by their pocketbooks.

I guess I'm not a very good judge of character.

Josh had always been a good judge of character.

He was an excellent judge of horseflesh.

Gabriel was his only friend who didn't judge him.

The people of Connecticut still remember Abraham Davenport, because he was a wise judge and a brave lawmaker.

Maybe you're not the best judge of that.

Don't judge Lise harshly, she began.

Can I receive that pure liquid into an impure vessel and judge of its purity?

It is not our business to judge and we've removed ourselves from the chore of managing the lives of others outside our household.

Now you shall judge between us.

I don't want to see Fred get in trouble with the judge.

In 1904 although not actively a candidate for the Democratic nomination (which eventually went to Judge Parker), he was to the very last considered a possible nominee; and he strenuously opposed in the convention the repudiation by the conservative element of the stand taken in the two previous campaigns.

Let him who has work to do recollect that the object of clothing is, first, to retain the vital heat, and secondly, in this state of society, to cover nakedness, and he may judge how much of any necessary or important work may be accomplished without adding to his wardrobe.

The practical result is to make the engineer judge in his own cause.

How can you judge the Emperor's actions?

She swallowed hard, uncomfortable with playing the role of judge and jury.

For convenience the judge often sits at the royal courts of justice.

It will be noticed that Justinian supposes that the prosecutor may begin the proceedings before the civil judge.

The figures are no longer abstractions; they are concrete examples of the folly of the bibliophile who collects books but learns nothing from them, of the evil judge who takes bribes to favour the guilty, of the old fool whom time merely strengthens in his folly, of those who are eager to follow the fashions, of the priests who spend their time in church telling "gestes" of Robin Hood and so forth.

His father, John Johnson (1770-1824), was a distinguished lawyer, who served in both houses of the Maryland General Assembly, as attorney-general of the state (1806-1811), as a judge of the court of appeals (1811-1821), and as a chancellor of his state (1821-1824).

Human nature seldom resists the charms of a fixed standard - least of all when it is applied by a live judge in a visible court.

I try not to immediately stereotype and judge people based on their outward appearances.

The judge under this act became (upon vacancies occurring) ex officio official principal of the arches court of Canterbury and of the chancery court of York.

In New York state there is still a court called the surrogates court, surrogate being the regular name for a deputy ecclesiastical judge.

It does not judge ministers (Brodie-Innes, Comparative Principles of the Laws of England and Scotland, 1903, p. 144).

As civil courts they judge in first instance all questions connected with glebes and the erection and repair of churches and manses.

To judge, however, from the insignificant remains of his writings, and from the opinions of Cicero and Horace, he can have had no pretension either to original genius or to artistic accomplishment.

Aeacus ruled over his people with such justice and impartiality that after his death he was made judge of the lower world together with Minos and Rhadamanthus.

To judge, however, from the dedications, prologues and epilogues of his various plays, he seems to have enjoyed the patronage of the earl, afterwards duke, of Newcastle, "himself a muse" after a fashion, and Lord Craven, the supposed husband of the ex-queen of Bohemia.

From the town The judge (ispravnik), who, in spite of the principle laid ordinary down in 1864, combines judicial and administrative functions, an appeal lies (as in the case of the justices of the peace) to an assembly of such judges; from these again there is an appeal to the district court (okrugniya sud), consisting of three judges; 4 from this to the court of appeal (sudebniya palata); while over this again is the senate, which, as the supreme court of cassation, can send a case for retrial for reason shown.

In ecclesiastical law, the contempt of the authority of an ecclesiastical court is dealt with by the issue of a writ de contumace capiendo from the court of chancery at the instance of the judge of the ecclesiastical court; this writ took the place of that de excommunicato capiendo in 1813, by an act of George III.

From 1885 to 1887 he served as assistant solicitor of Hamilton county, and in the latter year was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Ohio to fill a vacancy.

In 18 9 2 he was appointed a judge of the Sixth Circuit, United States Court, and became known as a fearless administrator of the law.

The doctrine that "the starvation of a nation cannot be the lawful purpose of a combination" was announced, and Judge Taft said further that "if there is any power in the army of the United States to run those trains, the trains will be run."

He was the son of John Henry, a welleducated Scotsman, among whose relatives was the historian William Robertson, and who served in Virginia as county surveyor, colonel and judge of a county court.

Alexander Brodie (1617-1680), the fourteenth laird, was one of the commissioners who went to the Hague to treat with Charles II., and afterwards became a Scottish lord of session and an English judge.

In 158 Jonathan began to rule as a judge in Michmash and he destroyed the godless out of Israel - so far, that is, as his power extended.

The great saying of each of these rabbis is concerned with the duties of a judge; the selection does justice to the importance of the Sanhedrin, which was filled with Pharisees.

An order for the removal of a judge must be based upon a conviction for some specified offence before a court of law.

In the council lay now, to judge from his words, the only chance of salvation; and, in view of the requirements of the case, he began to argue that, in case of schism, a council could be convoked by any one of the faithful, and would have the right to judge and even to depose the rival pontiffs.

He removed to Texas in 1839, was deputy surveyor of public lands in 1839-1843, was admitted to the bar in 1846, was a member of the state House of Representatives in 1847-1848, served as district judge in 1852-1857, and in1857-1861was a representative in Congress.

Though he took a keen interest in the personal side of politics he has no claim to be considered a judge of character.

This assurance was interpreted as not binding by the judge, and his fate hung in the balance.

He received his classical education in Rouen, entered the magistracy and became judge at Montivilliers, near Havre.

He managed also to hear Blackstone's lectures at Oxford, but says that he immediately detected the fallacies which underlay the rounded periods of the future judge.

The commissioner of the revenue is appointed for a term of four years by the judge of the corporation court.

But, though apparently without such a knowledge of the anatomy of birds as would enable him to apply it to the formation of that natural system which he was fully aware had yet to be sought, he seems to have been an excellent judge of the characters afforded by the bill and limbs, and the use he made of them, coupled with the extraordinary reputation he acquired on other grounds, procured for his system the adhesion for many years of the majority of ornithologists.'