Definition

• v. i. - A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose.
• v. i. - One who has skill, knowledge, or experience, sufficient to decide on the merits of a question, or on the quality or value of anything; one who discerns properties or relations with skill and readiness; a connoisseur; an expert; a critic.
• v. i. - A person appointed to decide in a/trial of skill, speed, etc., between two or more parties; an umpire; as, a judge in a horse race.
• v. i. - One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years.
• v. i. - The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges.
• a. - To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence.