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Grammar : Verb
Spell : uh-joo-di-keyt
Phonetic Transcription : əˈdʒu dɪˌkeɪt



Definition of adjudicate

Origin :
  • 1700, from Latin adjudicatus, past participle of adjudicare (see adjudge). Related: Adjudicated; adjudicating.
  • verb formally judge
Example sentences :
  • Whereupon three justices were appointed to adjudicate upon the case.
  • Extract from : « The Church of Grasmere » by Mary L. Armitt
  • And so on, as long as one has leisure to listen and adjudicate.
  • Extract from : « Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier » by T. L. Pennell
  • They are not proceedings in which this Court can adjudicate on the causes of the disaster.
  • Extract from : « Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster » by Sir Owen Woodhouse, R. B. Cooke, Ivor L. M. Richardson, Duncan Wallace McMullin, and Sir Edward Somers
  • To answer this question and to adjudicate between the litigants is hard enough, and yet I have stated the simplest difficulty.
  • Extract from : « Problems in Greek history » by John Pentland Mahaffy
  • Too often he was a man of no better education than the mass of litigants upon whose causes he was called to adjudicate.
  • Extract from : « Law and Laughter » by George Alexander Morton
  • Hillel then undertakes to adjudicate between the contending views by striking a compromise.
  • Extract from : « A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy » by Isaac Husik
  • During the summer of 1903 ten mixed commissions sat at Caracas to adjudicate upon the claims of as many nations against Venezuela.
  • Extract from : « The United States and Latin America » by John Holladay Latan
  • It is, wherever I have authority to adjudicate, a rule with me to decide as few abstract propositions as I possibly can.
  • Extract from : « Irish Wit and Humor » by Anonymous
  • Neither would give way, and the Mayor was called in to adjudicate.
  • Extract from : « Cathedral Cities of England » by George Gilbert
  • It will be observed that the king does not hear the cause or adjudicate upon it.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 9 » by Various

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