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JUDGES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A book of the Old Testament that tells the history of Israel under the leaders known as judges
Synonyms:
Book of Judges; Judges
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Instance hypernyms:
book (a major division of a long written composition)
Holonyms ("Judges" is a part of...):
Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)
Nebiim; Prophets (the second of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb judge
Context examples:
In previous studies, the researchers have shown that this brain region contains a generic valuation system that judges all kinds of stimuli; for example, they showed previously that this brain area signals the reward value of pleasant high-fat milkshakes and also of social stimuli such as pleasant touch.
(Scientists identify possible source of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the brain, University of Cambridge)
Nothing could be more obliging than your manner, I am sure, and I dare say you walked as fast as you could; but still it is some distance, you know, from this spot to the house, quite into the house; and when people are waiting, they are bad judges of time, and every half minute seems like five.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Well, well, ladies are the best judges; but James Benwick is rather too piano for me; and though very likely it is all our partiality, Sophy and I cannot help thinking Frederick's manners better than his.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
In the execution of this will Edith strove earnestly to observe the customary forms, but the group was so small that Hans and she had to serve as witnesses, as jury, and as judges—also as executioners.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
A fortnight later, by excellent good fortune, the doctor gave one of his pleasant dinners to some five or six old cronies, all intelligent, reputable men and all judges of good wine; and Mr. Utterson so contrived that he remained behind after the others had departed.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The world's judges of music may all be right.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“My cousin,” replied I, “it is decided as you may have expected; all judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape. But she has confessed.”
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He sees not as man sees, but far clearer: judges not as man judges, but far more wisely.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Whether they or their judges had any part in penning those laws, which they assumed the liberty of interpreting, and glossing upon at their pleasure?
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Why, the Ecclesiastical Delegates were the advocates without any business, who had looked on at the round game when it was playing in both courts, and had seen the cards shuffled, and cut, and played, and had talked to all the players about it, and now came fresh, as judges, to settle the matter to the satisfaction of everybody!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
