单词 | judgmatical |
释义 | judgmaticaladj. colloquial. Now rare. = judgmatic adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > [adjective] > showing sound judgement stablec1290 ripec1405 judging1546 sound1577 judiciala1586 judicious1598 judgmatical1709 well-judged1717 judgmatic1787 veracious1851 1709 E. Ward Secret Hist. Clubs ii. 23 Thus the Jest went round, till every Member of the Club, who had the least skill in Physick, had most gravely deliver'd his Judgmatical Opinion. 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. lxxxiv. 38 A man may be sometimes a little too judgmatical in his conjunctures. 1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans II. viii. 132 A judgematical rap, over the head, stiffened the lying impostor for a time. 1834 W. Maginn Bob Burke's Duel in Blackwood's Mag. 35 751 What we call in Ireland a judgmatical sort of man—a word which, I think, might be introduced with advantage into the English vocabulary. 1888 Spectator 13 Oct. 1411/1 The tone is moderate and judgmatical throughout. 1946 E. Sedgwick Happy Profession (1948) xxiii. 318 Mr. Bartlett, long counsel for the Monks family, was a sober, judgmatical man. 1987 H. Jacobson In Land of Oz xviii. 344 The incident..compromised the judgmatical temper which I'd been preparing for the Peace Expo. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1709 |
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