Etymology First attested in c. 1577; borrowed from Latin iūdicātus, perfect passive participle of iūdicō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)) and possibly partly a clipping of adjudicate. Doublet of judge.
Parasites and Flatterers, I wyll make so to abound, / That Trueth shalbe defaced, and stand aloofe behinde: / Auarice and Couetousnesse, shall compasse euerie ground, / That fewe shall haue credite, freendship to finde, / Wauerers and Neuters shall houer in the winde, / That Sycophants and brablers, preheminence shall haue, / To predicate and iudicate, before the wyse and graue.[1577?], Laurence Ramsey, The Practise of the Diuell. The Auncient Poisoned Practises of the Diuell, in His Papistes, Against the True Professors of Gods Holy Worde, in These Our Latter Daye. […], London: […] [J. Charlewood] for Tymothie Rider, and are to be solde […] by Henrie Kyrkham; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:
And to enter him befoir the saids Provest and baillies of Innernis, to be judicatit be them for his wrange or fact crym he sal commit, to suffer thairfoir according as he sail merit at the discretioun of the Judges, vnder the pain foirsaid: Quhairvpon tuick act.[1613 July 31, William Mackay, George Smith Laing, editors, Records of Inverness, volume II (Burgh Court Books: 1602-37; Minutes of Town Council: 1637-88) (in Scots), Aberdeen: […] [T]he New Spalding Club, published 1924, page 112:
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Quapropter cum Ariſtoteles neſciat naturam, proprietates, itemque generationum cauſas, ac quidditatem; quis non judicaverit, ex aridis cisternis Scholorum aquas Philoſophiæ haustas hactenus? Octo enim libri auſultationum Phyſicarum, ſomnia et privationes, pro naturæ cognitione exponunt.1654, Jo[hn] Webster, Academiarum Examen, or the Examination of Academies. Wherein Is Discussed and Examined the Matter, Method and Customes of Academick and Scholastick Learning, and the Insufficiency Thereof Discovered and Laid Open; […], London: […] Giles Calvert, […], pages 66–67:
The ſublime end of creation and moral government as taught us, by revelation--the rational and immortal nature wherewith we are endowed--the nature of things in a variety of views--the character and perfections of God and of his government, infinitely wiſe, holy, juſt, good and perfect--the property of his kingdom as everlaſting--the ill-demerit of ſin--the neceſſity and importance of ſuch a puniſhment to his enemies, to illuſtrate the character of God, of Chriſt, and of the divine government, and the doctrine of redemption in higheſt glory--and to eſtabliſh the authority and ſettle the everlaſting kingdom of God, in eternal ſecurity and peace, in higheſt dignity, perfection and glory, accompanied with the higheſt poſſible ſecurity and happineſs to all his holy, faithful ſubjects---and the cleareſt exhibition of the kingdom, power, and glory as the Lord’s. Theſe in connection do judicate the doctrine highly credible, worthy of all acceptation and our firmeſt belief.1786, Stephen Johnson, The Everlasting Punishment of the Ungodly, Illustrated and Evinced to Be a Scripture Doctrine: and the Salvation of All Men, as Taught in Several Late Publications, Confuted. […], New London, Conn.: […] Timothy Green, page 37:
“[…] And what think you got I for telling her the true even-doun fact?” / “Probably whatever she had in her hand.” / “O, ye’re a saterical man!—to judicate that leddies would be flinging housholdry at ane anither’s heads![…]”1826, John Galt, chapter XIV, in The Last of the Lairds: or, The Life and Opinions of Malachi Mailings, Esq. of Auldbiggings, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T[homas] Cadell, […], pages 128–129:
But he rushed out together with the kettle-drum, and rushed into the New Court,⁶ and began to judicate.1853, Aristophanes, translated by William James Hickie, “The Wasps”, in The Comedies of Aristophanes. A New and Literal Translation, from the Revised Text of Dindorf, with Notes and Extracts from the Best Metrical Versions., volume I ([…]), London: Henry G[eorge] Bohn, […], →OCLC, page 187:
judicate
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Etymology First attested in c. 1577; borrowed from Latin iūdicātus, perfect passive participle of iūdicō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)) and possibly partly a clipping of adjudicate. Doublet of judge.
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Historical Any of the independent states that took power in Sardinia in the Middle Ages.