adjudge
verb (used with object)
to declare or pronounce formally; decree.
has adjudged
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present perfectof adjudge (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The Earl of Talbot has adjudged you victor, and none can doubt what the end of the strife would have been.
From St. George for England by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
More himself has adjudged the book “no better worthy than to lye always in his own island, or else to be consecrated to Vulcan.”
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
But his Majesty has granted to the captors the whole of the property captured; the Board of Prizes has adjudged the ship Nile a lawful capture, by their decree of the 20th ult.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I by Sparks, Jared
The newspaper clipping contained these words: Nothing, therefore, remains for the Court but to pronounce the sentence which a jury, almost wholly of your own selection, has adjudged your fitting doom.
From Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life by Beard, Harry
