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24. 3. To discern, to distinguish. "How doth God know? Can he judge through the dark cloud?" Job xxii. 13. 4. To a ume the right to pa judgment upon any matter; to sit in judgment. "Forbear to judge , for we are sinners all." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. II . , iii. 3. B. Transitive : 1. To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court or a controversy between two parties; to decide judicially. 2. To try judicially; to examine and pa sentence upon. 3. To a ume the right to pa judgment upon; to sit in judgment upon. " Judge not, that ye be not judged."-Matt. viii. 1. 4. To act as chief magistrate over; to rule. "And he [Eli] had judged Israel forty years."-1 Samuel iv. 18. 5. To examine and decide upon the merits, qualities, or excellence of. "Challenging human scrutiny, and proved Then skillful most when most severely judged ." Cowper : Task , v. 869. 6. To esteem, to consider, to reckon. 2412 2. The act or proce of the mind in ascertaining the truth by comparison of ideas, facts, or propositions. "Judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully ideas one from another." Locke: Human Understanding, bk. ii., ch. xxi. 3. The examination of the relationship between one proposition and another. 4. The faculty of judging wisely, truly, or skill. fully; discernment, discrimination, good sense. 5. The faculty of the mind by which we ascertain the relation of terms and propositions by the comparison of ideas. "Weak is the will of man, his judgment blind Remembrance persecutes, and Hope betrays." Words worth: White Doe of Rylstone. (Introd.) 6. The result of the comparison of the relation of ideas, or the comparison of facts and arguments; a determination of the mind formed from such comparison. 7. An opinion; a notion; a manner of thinking about anything; award, estimate, belief. "She in my judgment was as fair as you." Shakesp.: Two Gentlemen of Verona, iv. 4. 8. Discretion, prudence, foresight, sagacity. 9. In the same sense as II. 1. "All that they had to consider was whether, the verdict being supposed to be according to the evidence, the judg ment was legal." -Macaulay : Hist . Eng . , ch. xvi. *10. A judiciary law; a statute; a commandment. "These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments which Moses spake unto the children of Israel."-Deuteronomy iv. 45. 11. The right or power of pa ing sentence. "If my suspect be false, forgive me God, For judgment only doth belong to Thee." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt . II . , iii. 2. 12. A calamity regarded as a punishment inflicted by God upon a sinner. "This judgment of the heavens that makes us tremble, Touches us not with pity." Shakesp.: Lear, v. 3. II. Technically : 1. Law: A determination, decision, or sentence of a judge or court in any case, civil or criminal. "I shall not need to alledge an example foreign of the wisdom of the lawyers, who are careful to report new cases and decisions for the direction of future judg ments."-Lord Bacon: Works; Adv. of Learn., bk. ii. 2. Logic: Judgment is the comparing together in the mind two of the notions, or ideas, which are the objects of apprehension, whether complex or in complex, and pronouncing that they agree or disagree with each other, or that one of them belongs or does not belong to the other. Judgment is therefore affirmative or negative; as, Snow is white; all white men are not Europe ans. 3. Metaph .: That faculty of the human mind by which judgments are formed. Kant defines it as "the faculty by which the particular is conceived as contained under the universal." 4. Scripture: (1) Singular: (a) The sentence of a judge. (b) Justice (Isaiah xxxiii 5). (c) The punishment which justice inflicts; spe Acts xvi. 15. IMG:content-0165.png:[blocks in formation] on account of national or other sin (Exod. xii. 12; 2 Chron. xx. 9, xxii. 8). (2) Pl .: The civil and criminal enactments of the Mosaic code, as distinguished from the ceremonial and the moral laws (Exod. xii. 12; Psalm схіх. 7, 13, 20, 39, 43, 62, .). The judgment is that faculty which enables a person to distinguish right and wrong in general; discretion and prudence serve the same purpose in particular cases. The judgment is conclusive; it decides by positive inference; it enables a person to discover the truth; discretion is intuitive; it discerns or perceives what is in all probability right. The judgment acts by a fixed rule; it admits of no question or variation; the discretion acts according to circumstances, and is its own rule. The judgment determines in the choice of what is good; the discretion sometimes only guards against error or direct mistakes; it chooses what is nearest to the truth. The judgment requires knowledge and actual experience; the discretion requires reflection and consideration; prudence looks only to the good or evil which may result from the thing; it is, therefore, but a mode or accompaniment of discretion ; wemust have prudence when we have discretion , but we may have prudence where there is no occasion for discretion . Those who have the conduct or direction of others require dis cretion; those who have the management of their own concerns require prudence . Judgment of God : A term applied to several of the old forms of trial by ordeal, as single combat, walking upon red-hot plowshares, . *judgment-cap, s . [BLACK-CAP.] judicature judgment-creditor, 8. Law : One to whom a Court of Law has awarded a certain sum of money as damages, ., payable by the other party in the case.