adjudgment (ajujment)

The act of adjudging; adjudication; sentence. Also spelled adjudgement. The adjudgment of the punishment. Sir W. Temple , Introd. to Hist. Eng. adjudicataire (a-jödi-ka-tar'), n. [F., adjudicatus , pp. of adjudicare : see adjudicate .] In Canada, a purchaser at a judicial sale. adjudicate (a-jö'di-kat), v.; pret. and pp. ad judicated , ppr. adjudicating . [ adjudicatus , pp. of adjudicare , award, decide, ad , to, + judicare , judge: see adjudge and judge .] I. trans. To adjudge; pronounce judgment upon; award judicially. Superior force may end in conquest;... but it cannot adjudicate any right. Sumner , True Grand. of Nations. II. in trans. To sit in judgment; give a judicial decision: with upon : as, the court adjudi cated upon the case. From the whole taken in continuation, but not from any one as an insulated principle, you come into a power of adjudicating upon the pretensions of the whole theory. De Quincey , Style, ii.