Yahoo Canada Web Search

Search results

1. Dictionary

   adjudge

   /əˈdʒʌdʒ/

   verb

   • 1. consider or declare to be true or the case: "she was adjudged guilty"
   • ▪ (in legal use) award something judicially to: "the court adjudged legal damages to her"
   • ▪ (in legal use) condemn (someone) to pay a penalty: "the defaulter was adjudged to pay the whole amount"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French ajuger, from Latin adjudicare, from ad- ‘to’ + judicare, from judex, judic- ‘a judge’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. adjudgement noun

   Scrabble Points: 17

   • A

     1

   • D

     2

   • J

     8

   • U

     1

   • D

     2

   • G

     2

   • E

     1

   Powered by Oxford Dictionaries

   More definitions, origin and scrabble points