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noun

judging n. The cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions.

Synonyms: judgment, judgement.

verb

Judge v. t.

1.

To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties. "Chaos (shall) judge the strife."

2.

To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom. "God shall judge the righteous and the wicked." "To bring my whole cause 'fore his holiness, And to be judged by him."

3.

To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward. "Judge not, that ye be not judged."

4.

To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon. "If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord."

5.

To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern. (Obs.) "Make us a king to judge us."

Judge v. i. (past & past part. judged; pres. part. judging)

1.

To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence. "The Lord judge between thee and me." "Father, who art judge Of all things made, and judgest only right!"

2.

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. "Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all."

3.

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. "Judge not according to the appearance." "She is wise if I can judge of her."

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Etymology of 'Judging'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... we have encountered in the study of Uccello, Castagno, and Veneziano meet us as we turn to Fra Filippo. His works are still copious, and many of them are admirably preserved; we therefore have every facility for judging him as an artist, yet nothing is harder than to appreciate him at his due. If attractiveness, and attractiveness of the best kind, sufficed to make a great artist, then Filippo would be one of the greatest, greater perhaps than any other Florentine before Leonardo. ...

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... with its State-house, and body- guard of well-proportioned steeples standing round. It was marshy and wet, but is almost all redeemed by the translation into it of the high hills of sand. It must have been a terrible place for frogs, judging from what remains of it. Bits of water from the springs hard by lay here and there about the low ground, which are peopled as full of singers as ever the gallery of the old North Meeting-house was, and quite as melodious ...

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