judge

noun

1. A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.

   “The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct the evidence; to moderate length, repetition, or impertinency of speech; to recapitulate, select, and collate the material points of that which hath been said; and to give the rule or sentence.”

2. A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
3. A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar; referee.

   “At a boxing match, the decision of the judges is final.”

4. A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.

   “She is a good judge of wine.”

   “They say he is a poor judge of character considering all the unreliable friends he has made.”

5. (historical)A shophet, a temporary leader appointed in times of crisis in ancient Israel.
6. The title of a judge.

   ““I am saddened and disappointed in the way Judge Ehrlich behaved on the video. Her behavior cannot be condoned,” Tuter said.”

   “Deobra Redden, 31, was caught on camera in January jumping over a desk and lunging at Judge Mary Kay Holthus, who was sentencing him in another case.”

verb

1. (transitive)To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on (a person or matter).

   “A higher power will judge you after you are dead.”

2. (intransitive)To sit in judgment, to act as judge.

   “Justices in this country judge without appeal.”

3. (transitive)To judicially rule or determine.
4. (obsolete, transitive)To sentence to punishment, to judicially condemn.

   “He was judged to die for his crimes.”

5. (obsolete, transitive)To award judicially; to adjudge.
6. (transitive)To form an opinion on; to appraise.

   “I judge a man’s character by the cut of his suit.”

   “Let us be judged for what we attempted rather than what we achieved.”

7. (obsolete, transitive)To constitute a fitting appraisal or criterion of; to provide a basis for forming an opinion on.

   “Noble and milde this Perſean ſeemes to be, If outward habit Iudge the inward man.”

8. (intransitive)To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.

   “We cannot both be right: you must judge between us.”

9. (transitive)To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.

   “I judge it safe to leave the house once again.”

   “I've been judged to have the best qualifications.”

10. (ambitransitive)To form an opinion; to infer.

    “I judge from the sky that it might rain later.”

    “However I have the mirror positioned, I can't judge where the back of the car is.”

    “We can't always judge people's ages just by their voices.”

    “THE sun was up so high when I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock.”

11. (ambitransitive)To criticize or label another person or thing; to be judgmental toward.

    “There's something wrong with the world today; the light bulb's getting dim. There's meltdown in the sky. If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin, Mister, you're a better man than I”

12. (ambitransitive)To govern as biblical judge or shophet (over some jurisdiction).

    “And after him aroſe Iair a Gileadite, and iudged Iſrael twentie and two yeeres.”

    “And after him, Elon, a Zebulonite iudged Israel, and he iudged Israel ten yeeres.”

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A surname originating as an occupation.
2. (countable, uncountable)epithet of God or Jesus in his role as supreme arbiter

   “Wak’d by the trumpet’s sound, I from my grave must rise, And see the Judge with glory crown’d, And see the flaming skies.”

3. (countable, uncountable)A male given name of rare usage
4. (countable, uncountable)A placename
5. (countable, uncountable)A placename