Judicial
[dʒuː'dɪʃ(ə)l] or [dʒʊ'dɪʃəl]
Definition
(adj.) decreed by or proceeding from a court of justice; 'a judicial decision' .
(adj.) relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge; 'judicial system' .
(adj.) belonging or appropriate to the office of a judge; 'judicial robes' .
Editor: Tracy--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proceedings; a judicial sale.
(a.) Fitted or apt for judging or deciding; as, a judicial mind.
(a.) Belonging to the judiciary, as distinguished from legislative, administrative, or executive. See Executive.
(a.) Judicious.
Typist: Sean
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Juridical, forensic.
Edited by Alta
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Juridical, forensic
Edited by Hamilton
Definition
adj. pertaining to a judge or court of justice: established by statute.—adv. Judic′ially.—Judicial Committee an offshoot of the Privy Council forming a court of appeal; Judicial factor in Scotland an administrator appointed by the courts to manage the estate of some one under some imperfection; Judicial separation the separation of two married persons by order of the Divorce Court.
Checker: Nathan
Examples
- That, said Joe, summing up with his judicial air, were the word of Biddy. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wine-glass to the light and look judicial. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- No judicial inquiry, I mean. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The above are sufficient to illustrate the direct clearness of judicial decision on Edison's position as the founder of the art of electric lighting by incandescence. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Bannister entered, and shrank back in evident surprise and fear at our judicial appearance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- His birth and fortune thus naturally procure him some sort of judicial authority. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn is received with distinction and seated near the coroner between that high judicial officer, a bagatelle-board, and the coal-box. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Which,' said Mr Dorrit, summing up with judicial gravity, 'is to say, in other words, that there is something wrong in--ha--Amy. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The judicial authority of such a sovereign, however, far from being a cause of expense, was, for a long time, a source of revenue to him. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But my duty did not lie in this direction--my function was of the purely judicial kind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Probably it was something in the nature of a judicial proceeding. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Try the settee, said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in judicial moods. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Checker: Nathan