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.