Associations to the word «Adjudicate»

Wiktionary

ADJUDICATE, verb. To settle a legal case or other dispute.
ADJUDICATE, verb. To act as a judge.

Dictionary definition

ADJUDICATE, verb. 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".
ADJUDICATE, verb. Bring to an end; settle conclusively; "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats