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Webster 1913 Edition


Judicatory

Ju′di-ca-to-ry

,
Adj.
[L.
judicatorius
.]
Pertaining to the administration of justice; dispensing justice; judicial;
as,
judicatory
tribunals
.
T. Wharton.
Power to reject in an authoritative or
judicatory
way.
Bp. Hall.

Ju′di-ca-to-ry

(277)
,
Noun.
[L.
judicatorium
.]
1.
A court of justice; a tribunal.
Milton.
2.
Administration of justice.
The supreme court of
judicatory
.
Clarendon.

Webster 1828 Edition


Judicatory

JU'DICATORY

,
Adj.
Dispensing justice.

JU'DICATORY

,
Noun.
[L. judicatorium.] A court of justice; a tribunal.
1.
Distribution of justice.

Definition 2024


judicatory

judicatory

English

Adjective

judicatory (comparative more judicatory, superlative most judicatory)

  1. Pertaining to judgement, or to passing a sentence.
    • T. Wharton
      Judicatory tribunals.
    • Bishop Hall
      Power to reject in an authoritative or judicatory way.
  2. By which a judgement can be made; decisive, critical.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
      To judge of the apparances that we receive of subjects, we had need have a judicatorie instrument: to verifie this instrument we should have demonstration; and to approve demonstration, an instrument; thus are we ever turning round.

Noun

judicatory (plural judicatories)

  1. (chiefly in Scotland) A court or tribunal
  2. judicature