Word Meanings - ADJUDGMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of adjudging; judicial decision; adjudication. Sir W. Temple.

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• JUDICIAL
  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."
• TEMPLED
  Supplied with a temple or temples, or with churches; inclosed in a temple. I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills. S. F. Smith.
• JUDICIALLY
  In a judicial capacity or judicial manner. "The Lords . . . sitting judicially." Macaulay.
• DECISION
  1. Cutting off; division; detachment of a part. Bp. Pearson. 2. The act of deciding; act of settling or terminating, as a controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue; determination, as of a question or doubt; settlement; conclusion.
• ADJUDGER
  One who adjudges.
• ADJUDGE
  1. To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor. 2. To determine in the exercise of judicial power; to decide or award judicially; to adjudicate; as, the case was adjudged in the November
• TEMPLET
  A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure. (more info) 1. A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be
• ADJUDGMENT
  The act of adjudging; judicial decision; adjudication. Sir W. Temple.
• TEMPLE
  A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
• ADJUDICATION
  The decision upon the question whether the debtor is a bankrupt. Abbott. (more info) 1. The act of adjudicating; the act or process of trying and determining judicially. 2. A deliberate determination by the judicial power; a judicial decision or
• INJUDICIAL
  Not according to the forms of law; not judicial.
• STEMPLE
  A crossbar of wood in a shaft, serving as a step.
• EXTRAJUDICIAL CONVEYANCE
  A conveyance, as by deed, effected by the act of the parties and not involving, as in the fine and recovery, judicial proceedings.
• ANTETEMPLE
  The portico, or narthex in an ancient temple or church.
• INDECISION
  Want of decision; want of settled purpose, or of firmness; indetermination; wavering of mind; irresolution; vacillation; hesitation. The term indecision . . . implies an idea very nicely different from irresolution; yet it has a tendency to produce
• EXTRAJUDICIAL
  Out of or beyond the proper authority of a court or judge; beyond jurisdiction; not legally required. "An extrajudicial opinion." Hallam. -- Ex`tra*ju*di"cial*ly, adv.
• PREJUDICIAL
  1. Biased, possessed, or blinded by prejudices; as, to look with a prejudicial eye. Holyday. 2. Tending to obstruct or impair; hurtful; injurious; disadvantageous; detrimental. Hooker. His going away . . . was most prejudicial and most ruinous