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Webster 1913 Edition
Judicial
Ju-di′cial
,Adj.
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;
“Judicial massacres.” as,
judicial
power; judicial
proceedings; a judicial
sale. 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; judicial
temperament3.
Belonging to the judiciary, as distinguished from
legislative
, administrative
, or executive
. See Executive
. 4.
Judicious.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.