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ad·judge

 (ə-jŭj′)
tr.v. ad·judged, ad·judg·ing, ad·judg·es
1.
a. To determine or decide by judicial procedure; adjudicate.
b. To order judicially; rule.
c. To award (damages, for example) by law.
2. To regard, consider, or deem: was adjudged incompetent.

[Middle English ajugen, from Old French ajuger, from Latin adiūdicāre; see adjudicate.]
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adjudge

(əˈdʒʌdʒ)
vb (tr; usually passive)
1. to pronounce formally; declare: he was adjudged the winner.
2. (Law)
a. to determine judicially; judge
b. to order or pronounce by law; decree: he was adjudged bankrupt.
c. to award (costs, damages, etc)
3. archaic to sentence or condemn
[C14: via Old French from Latin adjūdicāre. See adjudicate]
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ad•judge

(əˈdʒʌdʒ)

v.t. -judged, -judg•ing.
1. to declare or pronounce formally; decree: The will was adjudged void.
2. to award or assign judicially.
3. to decide by a judicial opinion: to adjudge a case.
4. to sentence or condemn.
5. to deem; consider; think.
[1325–75; Middle English ajugen < Middle French ajug(i)er < Latin adjūdicāre. See adjudicate]
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adjudge


Past participle: adjudged
Gerund: adjudging

Imperative
adjudge
adjudge
Present
I adjudge
you adjudge
he/she/it adjudges
we adjudge
you adjudge
they adjudge
Preterite
I adjudged
you adjudged
he/she/it adjudged
we adjudged
you adjudged
they adjudged
Present Continuous
I am adjudging
you are adjudging
he/she/it is adjudging
we are adjudging
you are adjudging
they are adjudging
Present Perfect
I have adjudged
you have adjudged
he/she/it has adjudged
we have adjudged
you have adjudged
they have adjudged
Past Continuous
I was adjudging
you were adjudging
he/she/it was adjudging
we were adjudging
you were adjudging
they were adjudging
Past Perfect
I had adjudged
you had adjudged
he/she/it had adjudged
we had adjudged
you had adjudged
they had adjudged
Future
I will adjudge
you will adjudge
he/she/it will adjudge
we will adjudge
you will adjudge
they will adjudge
Future Perfect
I will have adjudged
you will have adjudged
he/she/it will have adjudged
we will have adjudged
you will have adjudged
they will have adjudged
Future Continuous
I will be adjudging
you will be adjudging
he/she/it will be adjudging
we will be adjudging
you will be adjudging
they will be adjudging
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been adjudging
you have been adjudging
he/she/it has been adjudging
we have been adjudging
you have been adjudging
they have been adjudging
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been adjudging
you will have been adjudging
he/she/it will have been adjudging
we will have been adjudging
you will have been adjudging
they will have been adjudging
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been adjudging
you had been adjudging
he/she/it had been adjudging
we had been adjudging
you had been adjudging
they had been adjudging
Conditional
I would adjudge
you would adjudge
he/she/it would adjudge
we would adjudge
you would adjudge
they would adjudge
Past Conditional
I would have adjudged
you would have adjudged
he/she/it would have adjudged
we would have adjudged
you would have adjudged
they would have adjudged
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.adjudge - declare to beadjudge - declare to be; "She was declared incompetent"; "judge held that the defendant was innocent"
pass judgment, evaluate, judge - form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people"
acknowledge, admit - declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of; "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten"
superannuate - declare to be obsolete
certify - declare legally insane
call - declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee; "call a runner out"
beatify - declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood; "On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican"
canonize, saint, canonise - declare (a dead person) to be a saint; "After he was shown to have performed a miracle, the priest was canonized"
pronounce, label, judge - pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here"
strike down, cancel - declare null and void; make ineffective; "Cancel the election results"; "strike down a law"
formalise, formalize - make formal or official; "We formalized the appointment and gave him a title"
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adjudge

verb judge, determine, declare, decide, assign, pronounce, decree, apportion, adjudicate He was adjudged to be guilty.
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adjudge

verb
To make a decision about (a controversy or dispute, for example) after deliberation, as in a court of law:
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Translations

adjudge

[əˈdʒʌdz] VT
1. (= pronounce, declare) → declarar
he was adjudged the winnerse lo declaró ganador, se le concedió la victoria
to adjudge thatestimar que ..., considerar que ...
2. (Jur) [+ costs, damages] → adjudicar
to adjudge sb guiltydeclarar culpable a algn
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adjudge

[əˈdʒʌdʒ] vt (= pronounce, declare) → déclarer
He was adjudged to be guilty → Il a été déclaré coupable.
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adjudge

vt
(Jur) the court adjudged that …das Gericht entschied or befand, dass …
(= award) prizezuerkennen, zusprechen (to sb jdm); he was adjudged the winnerer wurde zum Sieger or Gewinner erklärt
(form, = consider) → erachten für or als (geh)
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Rather, to-day, is it adjudged a step aside, or a step backward, to the social tyrannies that made the early world a hell, but that were as necessary as the Iron Heel was unnecessary.
Capitalism was adjudged by the sociologists of the time to be the culmination of bourgeois rule, the ripened fruit of the bourgeois revolution.
Both Knights broke their lances fairly, but Front-de-B uf, who lost a stirrup in the encounter, was adjudged to have the disadvantage.
"With all that afterward occurred--the examination of the house; the failure to find any room corresponding to that which I have described; the attempt to have me adjudged insane, and my triumph over my accusers--the readers of the Advocate are familiar.
This is that Lavalle whom the world, immersed in speculations of immediate gain, did not know nor suspect--the Lavalle whom they adjudged to the last a pedant and a theorist.
The great difference is, that the table and chair cannot feel, and the man can; for even a legal enactment that he shall be "taken, reputed, adjudged in law, to be a chattel personal," cannot blot out his soul, with its own private little world of memories, hopes, loves, fears, and desires.
After he had adjudged them well, he ouched and informed her that there was still some hurt in the right eye.
By the slave code, they are adjudged to be as incompetent to testify against a white man, as though they were indeed a part of the brute creation.
The copyright of authors has been solemnly adjudged, in Great Britain, to be a right of common law.
With August the school-year (l'annee scolaire) closed, the examinations concluded, the prizes were adjudged, the schools dispersed, the gates of all colleges, the doors of all pensionnats shut, not to be reopened till the beginning or middle of October.
On the skeleton fingers of his right hand were no less than five rings--not men's rings, nor women's, but foppish rings--"that would fetch a price," Daughtry adjudged. On the left hand were no rings, for there were no fingers to wear them.
The verdict given was that a woman who had been "to burial borne" and left for dead, who had been driven from her husband's door and from her childhood home, "must be adjudged as dead in law and fact," was no more daughter or wife, but was set free to form what new ties she would.