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Judges

noun

1.

A book of the Old Testament that tells the history of Israel under the leaders known as judges. Synonym: Book of Judges.

Judge

noun

1.

A public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice. Synonyms: jurist, justice.

2.

An authority who is able to estimate worth or quality. Synonym: evaluator.

verb

(past & past part. judged; pres. part. judging)

1.

Determine the result of (a competition).

2.

Form a critical opinion of. Synonyms: evaluate, pass judgment. "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" , "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people"

3.

Judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time). Synonyms: approximate, estimate, gauge, guess.

4.

Pronounce judgment on. Synonyms: label, pronounce.

5.

Put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of. Synonyms: adjudicate, try. "The judge tried both father and son in separate trials"

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"Judges" Quotes from Famous Books

... became enveloped in a dense volume of sound. Men and women stood on their chairs and waved frantically, madly, anything they could clutch hold of to wave. The whole Olympia appeared to have gone mad. Noble peers, grave judges, sedate generals and austere philosophers acted as if suddenly bereft of the restaining influences of ...

— Malcolm Sage, Detective • Herbert George Jenkins

... their age and received from each the same answer. As it became plain that the prisoner at the bar was to be convicted the gentleman-gaoler gradually turned the edge of his axe toward Balmerino, whose manner was nonchalant and scornful. When the vote had been polled my Lord bowed to the judges with dignity and remarked, "I am sorry to have taken up so much of your time without avail, my lords. If I pleaded 'not guilty' my principal reason was that the ladies might not miss their show." Shortly afterward ...

— A Daughter of Raasay - A Tale of the '45 • William MacLeod Raine

... humanity, of the fatherland. On the other hand, should a great misfortune befall us, we protest that there is no justice, and that there are no gods; but let the misfortune befall our enemy, and the universe is at once repeopled with invisible judges. If, however, some unexpected, disproportionate stroke of good fortune come to us, we are quickly convinced that we must possess merits so carefully hidden as to have escaped our own observation; and we are happier in their ...

— The Buried Temple • Maurice Maeterlinck

... sea and land. Here he continues his vocation, which demands the assigning of the just penalty to the guilty. He is manifestly the type of Justice, both punishing and rewarding; as punisher he has been transferred by Dante to the Inferno. Later Greek legend united with him two other judges, his ...

— Homer's Odyssey - A Commentary • Denton J. Snider

... as "a privilege conferred on the nobles for their fidelity, and for the generous sacrifice of their lives in their country's cause," was regarded by those who enjoyed it as a new kind of obligatory service—an obligation to supply judges ...

— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace

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