adjudge

verb

Etymology: From Middle English ajugen, adjugen, from Old French ajugier, from Latin adiudicare. Doublet of adjudicate.

1. To declare to be.
2. To deem or determine to be.

   “City felt they were victims of an injustice after 16 minutes when Silva's free-kick floated straight in, but French official Stephane Lannoy adjudged that Joleon Lescott had fouled keeper Jorg Butt.”

3. To award judicially; to assign.

   “19th c., James Russell Lowell, The Heritage What doth the poor man's son inherit? Wishes o'erjoyed with humble things, A rank adjudged by toil-won merit, Content that from employment springs”

   “[…] who are to stand as his accusers before the high court of the Areopagus, inaugurated by the daughter of Zeus, the goddess of wisdom, to adjudge his unhappy case.”

4. To sentence; to condemn.

   “on failure of payment of the fines adjudged against them […] for which he shall be so adjudged to imprisonment”

   “no man ought to be adjudged to death, but by the Laws established in this your Realm”