adjudicate
[uh-joo-di-keyt]
- to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
- to settle or determine (an issue or dispute) judicially.
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- to sit in judgment (usually followed by upon).
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Origin of adjudicate
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Examples from the Web for adjudicate
Contemporary Examples
But law enforcement and the courts were torn on how to adjudicate the matter.
The folks from RecordSetter.com were there, the hosts told the hopeful twerkers, to adjudicate and certify the world record.
With the war having destroyed the judicial system, Syrians seek out members of ISIS to adjudicate disputes.
Mexico has comparable federal bureaucratic structures, as well as an independent Electoral Tribunal to adjudicate disputes.
Too Soon For 2016! How To End Our Endless Presidential Election SeasonRaymond A. Smith
January 26, 2013
First, Congress should eliminate the power of federal courts to adjudicate separation of powers cases.
Historical Examples
Whereupon three justices were appointed to adjudicate upon the case.
The Church of GrasmereMary L. Armitt
And so on, as long as one has leisure to listen and adjudicate.
Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan FrontierT. L. Pennell
They are not proceedings in which this Court can adjudicate on the causes of the disaster.
Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft DisasterSir Owen Woodhouse, R. B. Cooke, Ivor L. M. Richardson, Duncan Wallace McMullin, and Sir Edward Somers
To answer this question and to adjudicate between the litigants is hard enough, and yet I have stated the simplest difficulty.
Problems in Greek historyJohn Pentland Mahaffy
Too often he was a man of no better education than the mass of litigants upon whose causes he was called to adjudicate.
Law and LaughterGeorge Alexander Morton
adjudicate
- (when intr, usually foll by upon) to give a decision (on), esp a formal or binding one
- (intr) to act as an adjudicator
- (tr) chess to determine the likely result of (a game) by counting relative value of pieces, positional strength, etc
- (intr) to serve as a judge or arbiter, as in a competition
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Word Origin
C18: from Latin adjūdicāre to award something to someone, from ad- to + jūdicāre to act as a judge, from jūdex judge
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Word Origin and History for adjudicate
v.
1700, from Latin adjudicatus, past participle of adjudicare (see adjudge). Related: Adjudicated; adjudicating.
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