JUDICIAL : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: JUDICIAL	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
judicial adj decreed by or proceeding from a court of justice; "a judicial decision" belonging or appropriate to the office of a judge; "judicial robes" relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge; "judicial system" Synonym(s): judicial, juridical, juridic expressing careful judgment; "discriminative censure"; "a biography ...appreciative and yet judicial in purpose"-Tyler Dennett Synonym(s): discriminative, judicial
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Judicial \Judi"cial\, a. [L. judicialis, fr. judicium judgment, fr. judex judge: cf. OF. judicial. See {Judge}.] 1. Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as, judicial* power; judicial proceedings; a judicial sale. [bd]Judicial massacres.[b8] --Macaulay. Not a moral but a judicial law, and so was abrogated. --Milton. 2. Fitted or apt for judging or deciding; as, a judicial mind. 3. Belonging to the judiciary, as distinguished from legislative, administrative, or executive. See {Executive}. 4. Judicious. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.