adjudge

Verb

adjudge (third-person singular simple present adjudges, present participle adjudging, simple past and past participle adjudged)

1. To declare to be.

   Synonyms:

   assert, make known, swear, asseverate, attest, aver, avouch, avow, certify, claim

2. To deem or determine to be.
   • City felt they were victims of an injustice after 16 minutes when Silva's free-kick floated straight in, but French official Stephane Lannoy adjudged that Joleon Lescott had fouled keeper Jorg Butt.2011 December 7, Phil McNulty, “Man City 2 - 0 Bayern Munich”, in BBC Sport

   Synonyms:

   esteem, look upon, account, appraise, count, see, censure, consider, deem, hold

3. To award judicially; to assign.
   • 19th c., James Russell Lowell, The Heritage
     What doth the poor man's son inherit?
     Wishes o'erjoyed with humble things,
     A rank adjudged by toil-won merit,
     Content that from employment springs
   • […] who are to stand as his accusers before the high court of the Areopagus, inaugurated by the daughter of Zeus, the goddess of wisdom, to adjudge his unhappy case.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 151

   Synonyms:

   deem, judge, rule on, adjudicate, arbitrate, doom, hear, settle, try

4. To sentence; to condemn.
   • on failure of payment of the fines adjudged against them […] for which he shall be so adjudged to imprisonment1795 February 28, “An act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions and to repeal the act now in force for those...
   • no man ought to be adjudged to death, but by the Laws established in this your Realm1629, “The Petition Exhibited to his Majesty by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, concerning divers Rights and Liberties of the Subjects, with the...

   Synonyms:

   convict, doom, condemn, damn, deem, judge, sentence