judicate
judicate verb: to judge; to adjudicate.
Verb
judicate (third-person singular simple present judicates, present participle judicating, simple past and past participle judicated)
- To judge; to adjudicate.
- Parasites and Flatterers, I wyll make so to abound, / That Trueth shalbe defaced, and stand aloofe behinde: / Auarice and Couetousnesse, shall compasse euerie ground, / That fewe shall haue credite, freendship to finde, / Wauerers and Neuters shall houer in the winde, / That Sycophants and...[1577?], Laurence Ramsey, The Practise of the Diuell. The Auncient Poisoned Practises of the Diuell, in His Papistes, Against the True Professors of Gods Holy Worde, in These Our Latter Daye. […]...
- And to enter him befoir the saids Provest and baillies of Innernis, to be judicatit be them for his wrange or fact crym he sal commit, to suffer thairfoir according as he sail merit at the discretioun of the Judges, vnder the pain foirsaid: Quhairvpon tuick act.[1613 July 31, William Mackay, George Smith Laing, editors, Records of Inverness, volume II (Burgh Court Books: 1602-37; Minutes of Town Council: 1637-88) (in Scots), Aberdeen: […] [T]he New Spalding...
Noun
judicate (plural judicates)
- Any of the independent states that took power in Sardinia in the Middle Ages.
Examples of judicate in a sentence
- Theſe in connection do judicate the doctrine highly credible, worthy of all acceptation and our firmeſt belief.1786, Stephen Johnson, The Everlasting Punishment of the Ungodly, Illustrated and Evinced to Be a Scripture Doctrine: and the Salvation of...
- But he rushed out together with the kettle-drum, and rushed into the New Court,⁶ and began to judicate.1853, Aristophanes, translated by William James Hickie, “The Wasps”, in The Comedies of Aristophanes. A New and Literal Translation, from...
- The principal question arising in this case has never before been judicated in this court, and is therefore a case of the first importance to the great interests involved1869 April, “Important Fire Insurance Decision”, in Stephen English, editor, The Insurance Times: A Journal Solely Devoted to Life, Fire...
- To judicate, therefore, between these disparate views is difficult not only because there may be some merit to both but rather because such is not the function of the critic, any critic.1968, Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought, volume 10, New York, N.Y.: Rabbinical Council of America, →ISSN, page 72, column 1:
Forms of judicate
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | judicates |
| present participle | judicating |
| past participle | judicated |
| past | judicated |
| Noun | |
| plural | judicates |
Origin of judicate
First attested in c. 1577; borrowed from Latin iūdicātus, perfect passive participle of iūdicō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)) and possibly partly a clipping of adjudicate. Doublet of judge.
Questions about judicate
- What does judicate mean?
- Judicate means to judge; to adjudicate.
- How do you use judicate in a sentence?
- Theſe in connection do judicate the doctrine highly credible, worthy of all acceptation and our firmeſt belief.
- What part of speech is judicate?
- Judicate can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of judicate?
- The past tense of judicate is judicated.
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