Definition of judge

"judge" in the noun sense

1. judge, justice, jurist

a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice

2. evaluator, judge

an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality

"judge" in the verb sense

1. judge

determine the result of (a competition)

2. evaluate, pass judgment, judge

form a critical opinion of

"I cannot judge some works of modern art"

"How do you evaluate this grant proposal?"

"We shouldn't pass judgment on other people"

3. estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge

judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time

"I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds"

4. pronounce, label, judge

pronounce judgment on

"They labeled him unfit to work here"

5. judge, adjudicate, try

put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of

"The football star was tried for the murder of his wife"

"The judge tried both father and son in separate trials"

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Quotations for judge

Half as sober as a judge. [ Charles Lamb ]

The only infallible judge. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Gently to hear, kindly to judge. [ William Shakespeare ]

But infinite in pardon is my Judge. [ Milton ]

Make not thyself the judge of any man. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Blind men should not judge of colours. [ Proverb ]

No man should be judge in his own case. [ Law Maxim ]

When a man's life is under debate,
The judge can never too long deliberate. [ Dryden ]

A blind man should not judge of colours. [ Proverb ]

The mind is the proper judge of the man. [ Seneca ]

The prince, who kept the world in awe.
The judge, whose dictate fix'd the law.
The rich, the poor, the great, the small,
Are levelled: death confounds them all. [ Gay ]

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign.
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. [ Pope ]

He that wrongs his friend
Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about
A silent court of justice in his breast,
Himself the judge and jury, and himself
The prisoner at the bar, ever condemned. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. [ William Shakespeare ]

What can innocence hope for,
When such as sit her judges are corrupted? [ Massinger ]

A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge. [ Cowper ]

The cold neutrality of an impartial judge. [ Burke ]

Judge not by the number, but by the weight. [ Cicero ]

Love and madness judge of things much alike. [ Proverb ]

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge.
That no king can corrupt. [ William Shakespeare ]

You cannot judge of the horse by the harness. [ Proverb ]

Badly is the truth weighed by a corrupt judge. [ Horace ]

A good judge conceives quickly, judges slowly. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws. [ Dr. Johnson ]

A judge is a speaking law, law a silent judge. [ Cicero ]

He whose father is judge goes safe to his trial. [ Proverb ]

That trial is not fair where affection is judge. [ Proverb ]

I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds;
I do not make the accident of birth
The standard of their merit. [ Mrs. Hale ]

First on thy friend deliberate with thyself;
Pause, ponder, sift; not eager in the choice;
Nor jealous of the chosen; fixing, fix;
Judge before friendship, then confide till death. [ Young ]

A woman in love is a very poor judge of character. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]

We are sure to judge wrong if we do hot feel right. [ William Hazlitt ]

If Jack's in love, he is no judge of Jill's beauty. [ Proverb ]

As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

At the end of the work, you may judge of the workman. [ Proverb ]

The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved. [ Proverb ]

A conscience without God is a tribunal without a judge. [ Lamartine ]

You cannot judge of a man till you know his whole story. [ Proverb ]

A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth. [ Horace ]

A corrupt judge is not qualified to inquire into the truth. [ Horace ]

We judge of the size of the statue of Hercules by the foot.

Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge. [ Stanislaus ]

Sometimes the common people judge aright; at other times they err. [ Horace ]

Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Conscience is a sacred sanctuary where God alone may enter as judge. [ Lamennais ]

O time! whose verdicts mock our own, the only righteous judge art thou! [ T. W. Parsons ]

A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose. [ Southey ]

Expert men can execute, but learned men are more fit to judge and censure. [ Bacon ]

The world is an excellent judge in general, but a very bad one in particular. [ Lord Greville ]

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity. [ Cervantes ]

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant. [ Robert Louis Stevenson ]

Conscience is a sacred sanctuary, where God alone has the right to enter as judge. [ Lamennais ]

Let the judges answer to the question of law, and the jurors to the matter of fact. [ Law Maxim ]

You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Friends are the thermometers by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes. [ Lady Blessington ]

We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

When by a pardoned murderer blood is spilt, the judge that pardoned hath the greatest guilt. [ Sir J. Denham ]

To judge a country one does not know the language of is like judging a book from the binding.

We ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications, but by the use they make of them. [ Charron ]

Take note of what you see, give heed to what you hear, and be silent. Judge little, inquire much. [ Platen ]

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it. [ Mme. Roland ]

Judge thyself with a judgment of sincerity, and thou wilt judge others with a judgment of charity. [ Mason ]

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; so ready are we to judge from the event. [ Euripides ]

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Greece, so much praised for her wisdom, never produced but seven wise men: judge of the number of fools! [ Grecourt ]

To test the Reality we must see it on the tightrope. When the verities become acrobats we can judge them. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

To judge of the real importance of an individual, one should think of the effect his death would produce. [ Levis ]

Human nature is so constituted that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own. [ Terence ]

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them, rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature. [ I. Watts ]

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially. [ Socrates ]

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. [ Macchiavelli ]

If judges would make their decisions just, they should behold neither plaintiff, defendant, nor pleader, but only the cause itself. [ Livingston ]

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the natter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge. [ Chesterfield ]

To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me. [ Goethe ]

He that loves reading has everything within his reach. He has but to desire, and he may possess himself of every species of wisdom to judge and power to perform. [ William Godwin ]

Slander and detraction can have no influence, can make no impression, upon the righteous Judge above. None to thy prejudice, but a sad and fatal one to their own. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the work by; it is good, and made by a good workman. [ Bruyere ]

When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand. [ La Bruyere ]

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone. [ Gotthold ]

Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Judge every word and deed which is according to nature to be fit for thee, and be not diverted by the blame which follows; but if a thing is good to be done or said, do not consider it unworthy of thee. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

The wisest of us must, for by far the most part, judge like the simplest; estimate importance by mere magnitude, and expect that which strongly affects our own generation, will strongly affect those that are to follow. [ Carlyle ]

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings, - as some savage tribes determine the power of their muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or, more properly, without thinking, and consequently will judge of effects without attending to their causes. [ George Washington ]

We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. [ Izaak Walton ]

No man can judge another, because no man knows himself; for we censure others but as they disagree with that humour which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us. [ Colton ]

Give thy friend counsel wisely and charitably, but leave him to his liberty whether he will follow thee or no; and be not angry if thy counsel be rejected, for advice is no empire, and he is not my friend that will be my judge whether I will or no. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. People say sometimes that Beauty is only superficial, but at least it is not so superficial as thought. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small. [ Goethe ]

What a chimera is man! What a confused chaos! What a subject of contradictions! A professed judge of all things, and yet a feeble worm of the earth! the great depositary and guardian of truth, and yet a mere bundle of uncertainties! the glory and the shame of the universe! [ Pascal ]

Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge of the heart by the pulse, so we by the eye; a rolling eye, a roving heart. The good eye keeps minute time, and strikes when it should; the lustful, crochet-time, and so puts all out of tune. [ Rev. T. Adams ]

We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. There is, indeed, a certain low and moderate sort of poetry, that a man may well enough judge by certain rules of art: but the true, supreme, and divine poesy is equally above all rules and reason. And whoever discerns the beauty of it with the most assured and most steady sight sees no more than the quick reflection of a flash of lightning. [ Montaigne ]

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

judge in Scrabble®

The word judge is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 14

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judge in Words With Friends™

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 18

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Words within the letters of judge

3 letter words in judge (3 words)

5 letter words in judge (1 word)

judge + 1 blank (4 words)

judge + 2 blanks (6 words)

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