adjudge

From Middle English ajugen, adjugen, from Old French ajugier, from Latin adiudicare. Doublet of adjudicate.

• IPA^(key): /əˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌdʒ

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

1. To declare to be.
2. To deem or determine to be.
   • 2011 December 7, Phil McNulty, “Man City 2 - 0 Bayern Munich”, in BBC Sport‎:

     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.

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

• abjudge
• adjudicate
• judge