Adjudicate

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Adjudicate \Ad*ju"di*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adjudicated};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Adjudicating}] [L. adjudicatus, p. p. of
     adjudicare. See {Adjudge}.]
     To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by
     judicial decree.
     [1913 Webster]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Adjudicate \Ad*ju"di*cate\, v. i.
     To come to a judicial decision; as, the court adjudicated
     upon the case.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  adjudicate
       v 1: put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the
            trial of; "The football star was tried for the murder of
            his wife"; "The judge tried both father and son in
            separate trials" [syn: {judge}, {try}]
       2: bring to an end; settle conclusively; "The case was
          decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the
          plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were
          quarreling over their inheritance" [syn: {decide}, {settle},
           {resolve}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "adjudicate":
     account, adjudge, allow, arbitrate, be judicious, consider, count,
     deem, esteem, exercise judgment, express an opinion,
     form an opinion, hold, judge, pine, presume, referee, regard,
     suppose, think of, unique