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judiciary, a. and n. Now rare.|dʒuːˈdɪʃ(ɪ)ərɪ| [ad. L. jūdiciāri-us, f. jūdici-um judgement: see -ary, and cf. F. judiciaire (14–15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).] = judicial. A. adj. 1. Of or belonging to legal or formal judgement, or to a judge in his capacity of giving such judgement; pertaining to judicature or to courts of law. = judicial A. 1.
1611Cotgr., Iudiciaire,..iudiciarie, iudiciall, done in Court. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus ii. 13 Although he shall exercise his iudiciarie power. 1670Blount Law Dict. Ded., Persons, Dignified with the Judiciary Scarlet Robe. 1787Jefferson Writ. (1894) IV. 475, I like the organization of the government into Legislative, Judiciary and Executive. 1876Digby Real Prop. ii. 64 Laws..are made indirectly by the tribunals in deciding upon particular cases... [These] are sometimes called judge-made, or judiciary laws. †b. = judicial A. 1 b. Obs.
1699Burnet 39 Art. vii. (1700) 101 The Judiciary Parts of the Law were those that related to them as they were a Society of Men. †c. = judicial A. 1 c. Obs.
1656R. Robinson Christ all 425 It is a judiciary hand of God upon the Papists. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles iii. 24 Judiciarie Hardnesse of heart and Blindnesse of Minde. †2. Having the function of judging; deciding as a judge or arbiter: = judicial A. 2. Obs.
1690Child Disc. Trade (1694) 146 So many of the said Judiciary Merchants as heard the said Cause and Causes, and signed the Judgments or final Decrees in them. b. = judicial A. 2 b.
1768Blackstone Comm. III. xxii. (1809) 337 The first written injunction of judiciary combats that we meet with, is in the laws of Gundebald, a.d. 501. 1826Digby Broadst. Hon. (1829) I. Godefridus 273 The Clergy of Spain..instead of compurgatory oaths and iudiciary combats, ordained the proofs by witnesses and regular examination. †3. Forming a judgement or opinion, discerning: = judicial A. 4. Obs.
a1631Donne 2nd Serm. Gen. i. 26, I have a power to judge, a judiciarie, a discretive power. 1656Stanley Hist. Philos. v. (1701) 180/2 This Judgment may not unfitly be termed Judiciary. †b. Of, or in reference to, astrology: = judicial A. 4 b. Also, Pertaining to the giving of judgements or decisions by any kind of divination, as ‘physiognomy’. Obs.
1604T. Wright Passions vi. 315 What vaine studies exercise..our iudiciarie Astronomers, by calculating nativitees telling events. 1640Bp. Reynolds Passions ix. 78 All which..I include under the name of Iudiciarie Physiognomie. 1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) III. vii. vii. 327 The wild chimeras of judiciary astrology. †c. Rhet. = judicial A. 4 d. Obs.
1776G. Campbell Philos. Rhet. I. 17 Three sorts of orations, the deliberative, the judiciary and the demonstrative. B. n. [Cf. med.L. jūdiciāria, jūdiciārius ns.] †1. An art of divination: see A. 3 b. Obs.
1587Golding De Mornay xxv. 382 What Art mooued Iacob to say it?.. If yee say Phiznomie or Iudiciarie, the good old man was blind. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits (1616) 183 All the sciences belonging to the imagination..as the Mathematickes, Astrologie, Arithmeticke, Perspectiue, Iudiciarie, and the rest. †b. A judicial astrologer. Obs.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 136 May not the morose judiciaries be thus urged? 2. †a. A place or court of judicature. rare.
1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 780 A Judiciary or place of Judgment. b. = judicature 3.
1802M. Cutler in Life, Jrnls. & Corr. (1888) II. 81 He at length pointed out..the impossibility of a government being supported without an independent judiciary. 1875Gladstone Glean. VI. lxxxiii. 185 That strength depends on the magistracy, the police, the judiciary, the standing army. 1885Law Times LXXIX. 83/1 Head of the Irish magistracy and chief of the judiciary. |