Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of arbitrating; arbitration.
- noun The judgment of an arbitrator or arbiter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The power or right to decide for one's self or for others; the power of absolute and final decision.
- noun The act of deciding a dispute as an arbiter or arbitrator; the act of settling a claim or dispute which has been referred to arbitration; the absolute and authoritative settlement of any matter.
- noun The decision or sentence pronounced by an arbiter.
- noun Sometimes spelled
arbitrement .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Determination; decision; arbitration.
- noun The award of arbitrators.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
judgement of anarbiter orarbitrator ; anarbitration
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I firmly believe in arbitrament by police magistrates and civil courts.
With Funston's Men 1914
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Near four hundred years ago, as your grace knoweth, there being ill blood betwixt John, king of England, and the king of France, it was decreed that two champions should fight together in the lists, and so settle the dispute by what is called the arbitrament of God.
Vietnam: Solutions McCarthy, Mary 1967
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Near four hundred years ago, as your grace knoweth, there being ill blood betwixt John, king of England, and the king of France, it was decreed that two champions should fight together in the lists, and so settle the dispute by what is called the arbitrament of God.
The Prince and the Pauper; a tale for young people of all ages 1882
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Near four hundred years ago, as your grace knoweth, there being ill blood betwixt John, King of England, and the King of France, it was decreed that two champions should fight together in the lists, and so settle the dispute by what is called the arbitrament of God.
The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain 1872
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Near four hundred years ago, as your grace knoweth, there being ill blood betwixt John, King of England, and the King of France, it was decreed that two champions should fight together in the lists, and so settle the dispute by what is called the arbitrament of God.
The Prince and the Pauper, Part 4. Mark Twain 1872
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For anyone who wants to understand the total failure of the human spirit which war represents - and the utter disgust which must follow the "arbitrament" of war - must read the extract from Jean Giono's Le Grand Troupeau, which accompanies Louis Dauphin's bleak, rainswept painting, "Supply Route at Peronne".
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At the end of that fight either we will have a arbitrament or we will get rid of leaders who aren't strong enough. it's a win-win situation.
Omri Marcus: Six Easy Ways to End the Conflict in the Middle East 2009
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Poor William James, who invented this point of view, would be horrified at the use which is made of it; but when once the conception of objective truth is abandoned, it is clear that the question, ‘what shall I believe?’ is one to be settled, as I wrote in 1907, by ‘the appeal to force and the arbitrament of the big battalions,’ not by the methods of either theology or science.
The Volokh Conspiracy » American Universities and the Nazis: 2009
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The arbitrament of war forces the abandonment of much of the old façade which hides this shift.
Energy and Society~ Chapter 13~ The Enlargement and Concentration of Political Power 2009
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Or, if they should be so far admitted as furnishing a species of proof that no malice was intended in this sort of combat, from which fatal accidents do sometimes arise, it can only be so admitted when both parties are IN PARI CASU, equally acquainted with, and equally willing to refer themselves to, that species of arbitrament.
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