Definition of judge

• v. i. - A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose.
• v. i. - One who has skill, knowledge, or experience, sufficient to decide on the merits of a question, or on the quality or value of anything; one who discerns properties or relations with skill and readiness; a connoisseur; an expert; a critic.
• v. i. - A person appointed to decide in a/trial of skill, speed, etc., between two or more parties; an umpire; as, a judge in a horse race.
• v. i. - One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years.
• v. i. - The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges.
• a. - To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence.
• a. - To assume the right to pass judgment on another; to sit in judgment or commendation; to criticise or pass adverse judgment upon others. See Judge, v. t., 3.
• v. t. - To compare facts or ideas, and perceive their relations and attributes, and thus distinguish truth from falsehood; to determine; to discern; to distinguish; to form an opinion about.
• v. t. - To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties.
• v. t. - To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom.
• v. t. - To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.
• v. t. - To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon.
• v. t. - To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern.