adjudicate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ADJU'DICATE, verb transitive [Latin adjudico, to give sentence. See Judge.] To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court. it has the sense of adjudge. ADJU'DICATE, verb intransitive To try and determine judicially; as, the court adjudicated upon the case.
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