Judg"er (?), n. One who judges. Sir K. Digby.
Judge"ship (?), n. The office of a judge.
Judg"ment (?), n. [OE. jugement, F. jugement, LL. judicamentum, fr. L.
judicare. See Judge, v. i.]
1. The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison
and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of
thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical
propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment
he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited
confidence.
I oughte deme, of skilful jugement, That in the salte sea my wife
is deed.
Chaucer.
2. The power or faculty of performing such operations (see 1); esp.,
when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly,
or wisely; good sense; as, a man of judgment; a politician without
judgment.
He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with
judgment.
Ps. lxxii. 2.
Hernia. I would my father look'd but with my eyes. Theseus. Rather
your eyes must with his judgment look.
Shak.