Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Judicious; skilful; done with or manifesting good judgment.

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  • adjective judicious

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Examples

  • “That’s what I call judgmatical,” old Mike shouted, with a voice that rivalled cannon; “whoever thought of that deserves three epulets, one on each shoulder and one upon his head.

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

  • "That's what I call judgmatical," old Mike shouted, with a voice that rivalled cannon; "whoever thought of that deserves three epulets, one on each shoulder and one upon his head.

    Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War 1862

  • "And I'll speak my mind, Captain Dunsack; it's this -- your girls are a long sight too good for you or for any other judgmatical, psalm-singing devil dodger."

    Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • A judgmatical rider can help a great deal by the delicacy of his riding and the skill with which he uses his reins.

    The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909

  • Thus tardily made to realise into what perils his fancy was leading him, he checked and weighed her question with his answer, gravely judgmatical.

    The Day of Days An Extravaganza Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • A judgmatical rider can help a great deal by the delicacy of his riding and the skill with which he uses his reins.

    The Mountains 1904

  • His lordship -- a handsome, saturnine man, cool, insolently polite, and plentifully endowed with the judgmatical daring that is the necessary equipment of a society libertine -- counseled patience, toleration, even silent recognition of Anstruther's undoubted claims for services rendered.

    The Wings of the Morning Louis Tracy 1895

  • If you do not think the letters 'judgmatical,' send them back to me, and suggest a better course.

    Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892

  • Indeed, next to his man Remus Simpson, the "foreman of the crap," whom he was in the habit of consulting on "difficult pints," I stood higher with Uncle John than any one else as "a raal judgmatical man."

    The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches, 1853

  • "Aye, 'twas judgmatical and like themselves; though we were too expart to be thrown from a trail by so common an invention".

    The Last of the Mohicans 1826

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