award, awarde, agard

t. & i. [O. Fr. awarder to give a decision regarding the competence of judges, from a Lat. ad = to, and warder = to observe, to take heed of, to keep; Norm. Fr. agardetz = awarded: agarder to regard, to award; garda , garde = judgment, award.] A. Transitive : 1. Ord. Lang. & Law: To adjudge, to decide authoritatively, after carefully regarding," looking into, or examining the facts requisite to the formation of a correct judgment. (Used appropriately of the decision of an arbitrator, but sometimes also for the verdict of a judge in an ordinary court of law. It is generally followed (a) by the objective of the thing awarded; (b) more rarely by the objective of the persons for or against whom the decision is given; or (c) by that .) "That last judgment, whiche shall awarde some to eteruall felicitee, and other some to euerlastyng paynes and damnacion. Udal : Hebreis , ch. iv. (Richardson.) "And we decre ordaine and awarde that my saied lorde of Wyn chester"-Hall: Henry VI ., ch. iv. (Richardson. ) "Thus early Solomon the truth explored, The right awarded , and the babe restored," Dryden: To Mr. Northleigh, "A church which allows salvation to none without it, nor awards damnation to almost any within it." South . B. Intransitive: To make an award; to determine, as arbitrators do, a point submitted to them. "Th' unwise award to lodge it in the towers." Pope: Homer; Ody ey viii. 557.