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Judgment Day   /dʒˈədʒmənt deɪ/   Listen
noun
Judgment  n.  
1.
The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of things, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence. "I oughte deme, of skilful jugement, That in the salte sea my wife is deed."
2.
The power or faculty of performing such operations (see 1); esp., when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; good sense; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment. "He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment." "Hernia. I would my father look'd but with my eyes. Theseus. Rather your eyes must with his judgment look."
3.
The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision. "She in my judgment was as fair as you." "Who first his judgment asked, and then a place."
4.
The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge; the mandate or sentence of God as the judge of all. "In judgments between rich and poor, consider not what the poor man needs, but what is his own." "Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment."
5.
(Philos.)
(a)
That act of the mind by which two notions or ideas which are apprehended as distinct are compared for the purpose of ascertaining their agreement or disagreement. See 1. The comparison may be threefold: (1) Of individual objects forming a concept. (2) Of concepts giving what is technically called a judgment. (3) Of two judgments giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as analytic, synthetic, and identical.
(b)
That power or faculty by which knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2. "A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another." "The power by which we are enabled to perceive what is true or false, probable or improbable, is called by logicians the faculty of judgment."
6.
A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment. "Judgments are prepared for scorners." "This judgment of the heavens that makes us tremble."
7.
(Theol.) The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining combinations; as, judgment hour; judgment throne.
Judgment day (Theol.), the last day, or period when final judgment will be pronounced on the subjects of God's moral government.
Judgment debt (Law), a debt secured to the creditor by a judge's order.
Judgment hall, a hall where courts are held.
Judgment seat, the seat or bench on which judges sit in court; hence, a court; a tribunal. "We shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ."
Judgment summons (Law), a proceeding by a judgment creditor against a judgment debtor upon an unsatisfied judgment.
Arrest of judgment. (Law) See under Arrest, n.
Judgment of God, a term formerly applied to extraordinary trials of secret crimes, as by arms and single combat, by ordeal, etc.; it being imagined that God would work miracles to vindicate innocence. See under Ordeal.
Synonyms: Discernment; decision; determination; award; estimate; criticism; taste; discrimination; penetration; sagacity; intelligence; understanding. See Taste.





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"Judgment day" Quotes from Famous Books



... (1858-1865) his life's task, prosecuted from first to last, in "sore travail" of body and soul, with "The History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great," "the last and grandest of his works," says Froude; "a book," says Emerson, "that is a Judgment Day, for its moral verdict on men and nations, and the manners of modern times"; lies buried beside his own kindred in the place where he was born, as he had left instructions to be. "The man," according to Ruskin, his greatest disciple, and at present, ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... more or less, swarming on the floor, clustering on the walls, rising tier above tier, until in dim distance the pigmy throng seems soaring up into the very heavens, is a tremendous, a solemn, a heart-stirring sight, suggestive—I write with reverence—of the Judgment Day. And when such an assembly is convened for the purpose of considering matters of urgent importance, matters affecting the well-being of multitudes, matters of life and death which call for instant and ...
— Personal Reminiscences in Book Making - and Some Short Stories • R.M. Ballantyne
... by the text and its unfolding, is the importance of attaining self-knowledge here upon earth, and while there remaineth a sacrifice for sins. The duty and wisdom of every man is, to anticipate the revelations of the judgment day; to find out the sin of his soul, while it is an accepted time and a day of salvation. For we have seen that this self-inspection cannot ultimately be escaped. Man was made to know himself, and he must sooner or later come to it. Self-knowledge is as certain, in ...
— Sermons to the Natural Man • William G.T. Shedd
... passed from pleading to denunciation. The setting of The Great White Throne and the awful terrors of the Judgment Day were depicted in words that fell from the thin lips like the sentence of ...
— The Quickening • Francis Lynde
... antediluvians was closed off and the balance brought down in the year of the deluge; but the account of those who come after runs on and on, and the blessed bow of promise itself warns us that God will not stop it till the Judgment Day! O God, I thank thee that that day must come at last, when thou wilt destroy the world, and stop the interest on ...
— Madame Delphine • George W. Cable


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