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To adjudge is to make a formal judgment about someone or something: to decide, as a court or an official might, that a person is guilty, that a prize belongs to someone, or that a thing is so. It is a legal and rather old word. Judges and old reports use it; friends in a café do not. You are much more likely to hear judge, rule, or find (as in "the court found him guilty"). Though actually, adjudge often names the result in a tight pattern: they adjudged him the winner; he was adjudged bankrupt. It is not the everyday "I adjudge this cake to be good" — that is just think. The decision sits outside you; it is given, not merely felt.
判決、裁定、判定（法庭或正式場合；日常多說「判定」或「判決」）
組成From Middle English ajugen / adjugen, from Old French ajugier, from Latin adiudicare. English later took the same Latin word again as adjudicate; the two are doublets. Built from ad- + the Latin judging root also seen in judge.
同家族的字
- adjudicatethe same Latin verb; adjudge and adjudicate are doublets — two English words from one source
- judgethe same Latin judging root
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
adjudgeverb/əˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒ/
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To declare to be.
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To deem or determine to be.
- City felt they were victims of an injustice after 16 minutes when Silva's free-kick floated straight in, but French official Stephane Lannoy adjudged that Joleon Lescott had fouled keeper Jorg Butt.
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To award judicially; to assign.
- 19th c., James Russell Lowell, The Heritage What doth the poor man's son inherit? Wishes o'erjoyed with humble things, A rank adjudged by toil-won merit, Content that from employment springs
- […] who are to stand as his accusers before the high court of the Areopagus, inaugurated by the daughter of Zeus, the goddess of wisdom, to adjudge his unhappy case.
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To sentence; to condemn.
- on failure of payment of the fines adjudged against them […] for which he shall be so adjudged to imprisonment
- no man ought to be adjudged to death, but by the Laws established in this your Realm
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。