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▪ I. judicatory, n.|ˈdʒuːdɪkətərɪ, -ˈdɪkətərɪ|
[ad. late L. jūdicātōri-um, neuter of jūdicātōri-us adj.: see next.]
1. A court of judicature; a body having judicial authority; a tribunal. Now chiefly Sc.
1606–7Act of Counsell of Scot. 4 Feb., The Writers and Clerkes of all Iudicatories within this Realme. 1676Owen Worship of God 83 From the highest Court of their Sanhedrim, to the meanest Judicatory in their Synagogues. 1707Atterbury Serm. (1723) II. 172 Human Judicatories..give sentence only on matters of right and wrong. 1765Act 5 Geo. III, c. 49 §4 A protest..shall be registerable in the Courts of Session or other competent judicatories. 1801A. Hamilton Wks. (1886) VII. 226 The treaties of the United States had been infracted by State laws, put in execution by State judicatories. 1850H. Martineau Hist. Peace II. v. vii. 318 The Scotch Church..whose four judicatories..were still all elective.
b. transf. and fig.
1656Stanley Hist. Philos. iv. (1701) 134/2 They assert that passions or affections are the Judges [κριτηρια]..To these assertions..concerning the Judicatories, agreeth what they assert concerning Ends. 1674Govt. Tongue vi. §10 These are arraigned at every table, in every tavern; and at such variety of judicatories, there will be as great variety of sentences. 1850McCosh Div. Govt. (1852) 290 It [conscience] is the highest judicatory in the human mind, judging all and being judged of none.
2. Judicature; a system of judicature.
c1575Balfour's Practicks (1754) 265 Anent the college of justice, institutioun and judicatorie thairof. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. viii. §206 The Lords, as the Supreme Court of Judicatory. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. xxxvii. (1739) 55 Evidence..in the Saxon Judicatory, sometimes consisted in the pregnant testimony of the fact itself. 1884Law Times LXXVI. 342/1 The judicatories of Scotland and England were as independent of each other, within their respective territories, as if they were the judicatories of two foreign states.
†3. A judicatory or critical stage, a crisis. Obs.
1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xix. 810 Judicatories (or Crises) which do not terminate the disease, are signs of a predominant and perverse humour.
▪ II. ˈjudicatory, a. ? Obs.
[ad. late L. jūdicātōri-us of or pertaining to judging, f. ppl. stem of L. jūdicāre to judge: see -ory.]
1. Having the function of judging or passing sentence; of or pertaining to judgement.
1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. xlix. (1739) 84 An influence upon that Judicatory power that must apply that Law. 1659Pearson Creed vii. 602 The Son of man is thus constantly represented as making..the last judicatory distinction between man and man. a1718Penn Tracts Wks. 1726 I. 679 A great Share in the judicatory Power. 1782T. Warton Hist. Kiddington 61 Druidical shrines, thrones of royal inauguration..and judicatory tribunals.
2. By which a judgement may be made; giving a decisive indication, critical.
1603Florio Montaigne ii. xii, To judge of the apparences..we had need have a iudicatorie instrument. 1624[see indicatory a. 1]. 1625Hart Anat. Ur. i. ii. 21 Amongst such signes some are called Decretorie, or Iudicatorie. |