adjudge, a jugge

t. & 1. [O. Fr. ajuger; Fr. adjuger = to adjudge. from juger, Lat. judico to judge.] [JUDGE.) A. Transitive: 1. To judge or try a person; to come to a judicial decision regarding a case; to announce such a decision when arrived at. "Adjudged to death, For want of well pronouncing Shibboleth." Milton : Samson Agonistes. Followed by the person whose case is pronouneed upon in the objective, and to before the verdict given. ( Lit. & fig .) Sometimes, instead of to , the verdict constitutes the clause of a sentence introduced by that : "The popular tribunal was more lenient: it was ad judged that his offence should be expiated at the public expense."-Lewis: Early Roman Hist . , ch, xi. 2. To award by a judicial decision. (Followed by the thing awarded as the object, and to of the person.) ( Lit. & fig .) "The great competitors for Rome, Philips. Cæsar and Pompey, on Pharsalian plains; Where stern Bell on a with one final stroke Adjudg'd the empire of this globe to one." 3. In a more general sense: To judge, to consider, to deem, to regard as, to decide to be. "He adjudged him unworthy of his friendship, purposing sharply to revenge the wrong he had received."-Knolles. B. Intransitive : In the same senses as Spec.: To decide, to settle. As battle hath adjudged ." there let Him still victor sway, Milton: Paradise Lost, bk. x. ad-judged, pa. par. [ADJUDGE.] ad-judg-ing, pr. par. [ADJUDGE.]