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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Contemporary Examples
Clark, the first Jewish American League umpire, adjudicated baseball for three decades.
In fact, opposing sides of the issue are still clinging to the same flawed arguments as they were when Crawford was adjudicated.
Moral questions of responsibility, however, cannot be adjudicated by statistics.
Current federal guidelines bar gun sales only to people who have been institutionalized or “adjudicated as a mental defective.”
In court he was adjudicated a “predator”—a legal label he will wear for life.
Historical Examples
I've adjudicated these things for years to voices not in the same class as yours.
StingareeE. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
In this situation can the title to the vessel be adjudicated by American courts?
The Life of John Marshall Volume 4 of 4Albert J. Beveridge
Every man who came within their range of vision was duly examined and adjudicated.
The ShadowArthur Stringer
At the May meeting of 1765 the first felony case was adjudicated.
Montreal 1535-1914, Volume II (of 2)William Henry Atherton
The natural consequences of his acts were, to take the vessel and send her to a port to be adjudicated upon as a prize.
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 adjudicated
adjudicate
v.
1700, from Latin adjudicatus, past participle of adjudicare (see adjudge). Related: Adjudicated; adjudicating.
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