Definition of Adjudicate

1. Verb. Put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of. "They want to Adjudicate the prisoners "; "The judge tried both father and son in separate trials"

Exact synonyms: Judge, Try
Generic synonyms: Decide, Determine, Make Up One's Mind
Specialized synonyms: Court-martial
Derivative terms: Adjudicative, Adjudicator, Adjudicatory, Judge, Judge, Judgment, Judgment, Judiciary, Trial, Trier

2. Verb. Bring to an end; settle conclusively. "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance"
Exact synonyms: Decide, Resolve, Settle
Generic synonyms: End, Terminate
Specialized synonyms: Judge, Adjust
Derivative terms: Adjudicative, Adjudicatory, Judge, Deciding, Decisive, Resolve, Settlement, Settler

Definition of Adjudicate

1. v. t. To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.

2. v. i. To come to a judicial decision; as, the court adjudicated upon the case.

Definition of Adjudicate

1. Verb. To settle a legal case or other dispute. ¹

2. Verb. To act as a judge. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Adjudicate

1. [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adjudicate

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Literary usage of Adjudicate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Treatise on Sociology, Theoretical and Practical by Henry Hughes (1854)
"But to adjudicate wages, is also to adjudicate labor. ... If the state adjudicates distribution, it must of necessity, adjudicate production. ..."

2. The Local Courts' and Municipal GazetteLaw reports, digests, (1865)
"to adjudicate upon claims for rent, might involve tbe question of title, for two might claim for rent adversely to each other. ..."

3. International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied by the United States by Charles Cheney Hyde (1922)
"To Adjudicate. The power of a particular court to exercise jurisdiction in a prize case depends upon the local laws, and, in the United States, ..."

4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1870)
"... being empowered to examine and adjudicate in reference to all supplies taken ' т the quartermaster's and subsistence depart- n-ints, so that those who ..."

5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"Jurisdiction to adjudicate upon evidence in a suit brought here under the 22d section of the judiciary act is not conferred upon this court, ..."

6. In Darkest Africa, Or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of by Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
"... their milk-yield—Three cases referring to cattle which I am called upon to adjudicate—Household duties of the women—Dress among the ..."

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