a public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose.-one who has skill, knowledge, or experience, sufficient to decide on the merits of a question, or on the quality or value of anything; one who discerns properties or relations with skill and readiness; a connoisseur; an expert; a critic.-a person appointed to decide in a/trial of skill, speed, etc., between two or more parties; an umpire; as, a judge in a horse race.-one of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed israel for more than four hundred years.-the title of the seventh book of the old testament; the book of judges.-to hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence.-to assume the right to pass judgment on another; to sit in judgment or commendation; to criticise or pass adverse judgment upon others. see judge, v. t., 3.-to compare facts or ideas, and perceive their relations and attributes, and thus distinguish truth from falsehood; to determine; to discern; to distinguish; to form an opinion about.-to hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties.-to examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom.-to arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.-to determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon.-to exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern.