Found 4 items, similar to Judges.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: judge
hakim
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: judge
hakim, menghakimi, penilai
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Judges
Judges
n : a book of the Old Testament that tells the history of Israel
under the leaders known as judges [syn:
Book of Judges]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Judge
Judge
\Judge\ (j[u^]j), n. [OE. juge, OF. & F. juge, fr. OF.
jugier, F. juger, to judge. See
Judge, v. i.]
[1913 Webster]
1. (Law) 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.
[1913 Webster]
The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct
the evidence; to moderate length, repetition, or
impertinency of speech; to recapitulate, select, and
collate the material points of that which hath been
said; and to give the rule or sentence. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
2. 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.
[1913 Webster]
A man who is no judge of law may be a good judge of
poetry, or eloquence, or of the merits of a
painting. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
3. 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.
[1913 Webster]
4. (Jewish Hist.) One of the supreme magistrates, with both
civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more
than four hundred years.
[1913 Webster]
5. pl. The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament;
the Book of Judges.
[1913 Webster]
Judge Advocate (Mil. & Nav.), a person appointed to act as
prosecutor at a court-martial; he acts as the
representative of the government, as the responsible
adviser of the court, and also, to a certain extent, as
counsel for the accused, when he has no other counsel.
Judge-Advocate General, in the United States, the title of
two officers, one attached to the War Department and
having the rank of brigadier general, the other attached
to the Navy Department and having the rank of colonel of
marines or captain in the navy. The first is chief of the
Bureau of Military Justice of the army, the other performs
a similar duty for the navy. In England, the designation
of a member of the ministry who is the legal adviser of
the secretary of state for war, and supreme judge of the
proceedings of courts-martial.
Syn:
Judge,
Umpire,
Arbitrator,
Referee.
Usage: A judge, in the legal sense, is a magistrate appointed
to determine questions of law. An umpire is a person
selected to decide between two or more who contend for
a prize. An arbitrator is one chosen to allot to two
contestants their portion of a claim, usually on
grounds of equity and common sense. A referee is one
to whom a case is referred for final adjustment.
Arbitrations and references are sometimes voluntary,
sometimes appointed by a court.
[1913 Webster]
Judge
\Judge\, v. t.
1. To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a
court, or a controversy between two parties. ``Chaos
[shall] judge the strife.'' --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
2. To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom.
[1913 Webster]
God shall judge the righteous and the wicked.
--Eccl. iii.
7.
[1913 Webster]
To bring my whole cause 'fore his holiness,
And to be judged by him. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
3. To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment
upon; to be censorious toward.
[1913 Webster]
Judge not, that ye be not judged. --Matt. vii.
1.
[1913 Webster]
4. To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to
reckon.
[1913 Webster]
If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord.
--Acts xvi.
15.
[1913 Webster]
5. To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern.
[Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
Make us a king to judge us. --1 Sam. viii.
5.
[1913 Webster]
Judge
\Judge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Judged (j[u^]jd); p. pr. &
vb. n.
Judging.] [OE. jugen, OF. jugier, F. juger, L.
judicare, fr. judex judge; jus law or right + dicare to
proclaim, pronounce, akin to dicere to say. See
Just, a.,
and
Diction, and cf.
Judicial.]
[1913 Webster]
1. To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as
a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence.
[1913 Webster]
The Lord judge between thee and me. --Gen. xvi. 5.
[1913 Webster]
Father, who art judge
Of all things made, and judgest only right!
--Milton.
[1913 Webster]
2. 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.
[1913 Webster]
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
Judge not according to the appearance. --John vii.
24.
[1913 Webster]
She is wise if I can judge of her. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]