She in my judgment was as fair as you.
Shak.
Who first his judgment asked, and then a place.
Pope.
4. The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to
law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a
court, or of a judge; the mandate or sentence of God as the judge of
all.
In judgments between rich and poor, consider not what the poor man
needs, but what is his own.
Jer. Taylor.
Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment.
Shak.
5. (Philos.) (a) That act of the mind by which two notions or ideas
which are apprehended as distinct are compared for the purpose of
ascertaining their agreement or disagreement. See 1. The comparison may
be threefold: (1) Of individual objects forming a concept. (2) Of
concepts giving what is technically called a judgment. (3) Of two
judgments giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as
analytic, synthetic, and identical. (b) That power or faculty by which
knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See
2.
A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or
denied of another.
Sir W. Hamilton.
The power by which we are enabled to perceive what is true or
false, probable or improbable, is called by logicians the faculty
of judgment.
Stewart.
6. A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong
committed; a providential punishment. "Judgments are prepared for
scorners." Prov. xix. 29. "This judgment of the heavens that makes us
tremble." Shak.