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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of judge.

Etymologies

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From judge + -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix

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Examples

  • But against enemies, whom the Commonwealth judgeth capable to do them hurt, it is lawful by the original right of nature to make war; wherein the sword judgeth not, nor doth the victor make distinction of nocent and innocent as to the time past, nor has other respect of mercy than as it conduceth to the good of his own people.

    Leviathan 2007

  • But against enemies, whom the Commonwealth judgeth capable to do them hurt, it is lawful by the original right of nature to make war; wherein the sword judgeth not, nor doth the victor make distinction of nocent and innocent as to the time past, nor has other respect of mercy than as it conduceth to the good of his own people.

    Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651

  • And what I desire to do for you, dear friends, and for myself, is just to put emphasis on the one half of that little word 'judgeth' and ask you to take its three last letters and lay them on your minds.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • In The Obedience of a Christian Man, Tyndale argues forcibly for unconditional loyalty to kings "He that judgeth the King judgeth God and damneth God's law and ordinance".

    The King James Bible reconsidered | David Edgar 2011

  • He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

    FL-SEN: Harris Questions Nelson's Religious Faith 2009

  • Accordingly, he took ship with her and his two children, knowing not whither he should wend; but, “When Allah judgeth, there is none to reverse His judgment;” 499 and quoth the tongue of the case,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Psalm 82 opens with the line: “God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.”

    The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

  • That which the imagination hath taken from the sense, this agent judgeth of, whether it be true or false; and being so judged he commits it to the passible to be kept.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Understanding is a power of the soul, [1011] by which we perceive, know, remember, and judge as well singulars, as universals, having certain innate notices or beginnings of arts, a reflecting action, by which it judgeth of his own doings, and examines them.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • This common sense is the judge or moderator of the rest, by whom we discern all differences of objects; for by mine eye I do not know that I see, or by mine ear that I hear, but by my common sense, who judgeth of sounds and colours: they are but the organs to bring the species to be censured; so that all their objects are his, and all their offices are his.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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