adjudicator - a person who studies and settles conflicts and disputes

chief justice - the judge who presides over a supreme court

Daniel - a wise and upright judge; "a Daniel come to judgment" -- Shakespeare

doge - formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa

justice of the peace - a local magistrate with limited powers

justiciar, justiciary - formerly a high judicial officer

functionary, official - a worker who holds or is invested with an office

ordinary - a judge of a probate court

praetor, pretor - an annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic

qadi - an Islamic judge

recorder - a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs

stipendiary, stipendiary magistrate - paid magistrate (appointed by the Home Secretary) dealing with police cases

trial judge - a judge in a trial court

trier - one (as a judge) who examines and settles a case

Samson - (Old Testament) a judge of Israel who performed herculean feats of strength against the Philistines until he was betrayed to them by his mistress Delilah

appraiser, valuator - one who estimates officially the worth or value or quality of things

authority - an expert whose views are taken as definitive; "he is an authority on corporate law"

critic - anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something

resolve, settle, adjudicate, decide - bring to an end; settle conclusively; "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance"

referee, umpire - be a referee or umpire in a sports competition

cerebrate, cogitate, think - use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments; "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere"

grade, rate, rank, place, range, order - assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"

stand - have or maintain a position or stand on an issue; "Where do you stand on the War?"

approve - judge to be right or commendable; think well of

disapprove - consider bad or wrong

choose - see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way; "She chose not to attend classes and now she failed the exam"

prejudge - judge beforehand, especially without sufficient evidence

appraise, assess, evaluate, valuate, value, measure - place a value on; judge the worth of something; "I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional"

reappraise - appraise anew; "Homes in our town are reappraised every five years and taxes are increased accordingly"

reject - refuse to accept or acknowledge; "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper"

accept - consider or hold as true; "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument"

think, believe, conceive, consider - judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"

count on, figure, forecast, reckon, estimate, calculate - judge to be probable

anticipate, expect - regard something as probable or likely; "The meteorologists are expecting rain for tomorrow"

ascribe, attribute, impute, assign - attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"

attribute, assign - decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class"

disapprove, reject - deem wrong or inappropriate; "I disapprove of her child rearing methods"

adjudge, declare, hold - declare to be; "She was declared incompetent"; "judge held that the defendant was innocent"

critique, review - appraise critically; "She reviews books for the New York Times"; "Please critique this performance"

fail - judge unacceptable; "The teacher failed six students"

pass - accept or judge as acceptable; "The teacher passed the student although he was weak"

test, try out, try, essay, examine, prove - put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe"

compute, calculate, cipher, cypher, figure, reckon, work out - make a mathematical calculation or computation

quantise, quantize - telecommunications: approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values

misgauge - gauge something incorrectly or improperly

put, place, set - estimate; "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M."

give - estimate the duration or outcome of something; "He gave the patient three months to live"; "I gave him a very good chance at success"

lowball, underestimate - make a deliberately low estimate; "The construction company wanted the contract badly and lowballed"

assess - estimate the value of (property) for taxation; "Our house hasn't been assessed in years"

make - calculate as being; "I make the height about 100 feet"

reckon, count - take account of; "You have to reckon with our opponents"; "Count on the monsoon"

truncate - approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one; "truncate a series"

guesstimate - estimate based on a calculation

adjudge, declare, hold - declare to be; "She was declared incompetent"; "judge held that the defendant was innocent"

acquit, assoil, exculpate, exonerate, discharge, clear - pronounce not guilty of criminal charges; "The suspect was cleared of the murder charges"

convict - find or declare guilty; "The man was convicted of fraud and sentenced"

nasalise, nasalize - pronounce with a lowered velum; "She nasalizes all her vowels"

tout - advertize in strongly positive terms; "This product was touted as a revolutionary invention"

rule, find - decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty"

qualify - pronounce fit or able; "She was qualified to run the marathon"; "They nurses were qualified to administer the injections"

disqualify - declare unfit; "She was disqualified for the Olympics because she was a professional athlete"

intonate, intone - speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone; "please intonate with sadness"

decide, make up one's mind, determine - reach, make, or come to a decision about something; "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations"

court-martial - subject to trial by court-martial