adjudge
verb (used with object)
to declare or pronounce formally; decree.
had adjudged
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past perfectof adjudge.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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At the tournament her fleeting glimpse had adjudged the other merely sweetly pretty.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives
She was not the thief the court had adjudged her.
From Within the Law by Bayard Veiller
Far from recoiling from the enterprize which Tehrak had adjudged hopeless, he threw himself into it with the utmost ardour.
From Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson
Afterwards two persons concerned in the affair at Ruthven, were charged to leave the realm upon pain of corporal punishment, because the council had adjudged that affair to be treason against the king and government.
From Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie
That being judges of the matter, what they had adjudged was not traversable.
From An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting by Anonymous
