Chapter Judaize to Juggle of J by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement.

Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining combinations; as, judgment hour; judgment throne.

Judgment day (Theol.), the last day, or period when final judgment will be pronounced on the subjects of God's moral government. — Judgment debt (Law), a debt secured to the creditor by a judge's order. — Judgment hall, a hall where courts are held. — Judgment seat, the seat or bench on which judges sit in court; hence, a court; a tribunal. "We shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ." Rom. xiv. 10. — Judgment summons (Law), a proceeding by a judgment creditor against a judgment debtor upon an unsatisfied judgment.

Arrest of judgment. (Law) See under Arrest, n. — Judgment of God, a term formerly applied to extraordinary trials of secret crimes, as by arms and single combat, by ordeal, etc.; it being imagined that God would work miracles to vindicate innocence. See under Ordeal.

Syn. — Discernment; decision; determination; award; estimate; criticism; taste; discrimination; penetration; sagacity; intelligence; understanding. See Taste.

Judicable
(Ju"di*ca*ble) a. [L. judicabilis. See Judge, v. i.] Capable of being judged; capable of being tried or decided upon. Jer. Taylor.

Judicative
(Ju"di*ca*tive) a. Having power to judge; judicial; as, the judicative faculty. Hammond.

Judicatory
(Ju"di*ca*to*ry) a. [L. judicatorius.] Pertaining to the administration of justice; dispensing justice; judicial; as, judicatory tribunals. T. Wharton.

Power to reject in an authoritative or judicatory way.

Bp. Hall.

Judicatory
(Ju"di*ca*to*ry) n. [L. judicatorium.]

1. A court of justice; a tribunal. Milton.

2. Administration of justice.

The supreme court of judicatory.

Clarendon.

Judicature
(Ju"di*ca*ture) n. [F., fr. LL. judicatura.]

1. The state or profession of those employed in the administration of justice; also, the dispensing or administration of justice.

The honor of the judges in their judicature is the king's honor.

Bacon.

2. A court of justice; a judicatory. South.

3. The right of judicial action; jurisdiction; extent jurisdiction of a judge or court.

Our Savior disputes not here the judicature, for that was not his office, but the morality, of divorce.

Milton.

Judicial
(Ju*di"cial) a. [L. judicialis, fr. judicium judgment, fr. judex judge: cf. OF. judicial. See Judge.]

1. Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proceedings; a judicial sale. "Judicial massacres." Macaulay.

Not a moral but a judicial law, and so was abrogated.

Milton.