judge vs justiciary

judge

noun
  • A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice. 

  • A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question. 

  • A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion. 

  • A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar. 

  • A shophet, a temporary leader appointed in times of crisis in ancient Israel. 

verb
  • To govern as biblical judge or shophet (over some jurisdiction). 

  • To form an opinion; to infer. 

  • To judicially rule or determine. 

  • To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc. 

  • To sit in judgment, to act as judge. 

  • To form an opinion on; to appraise. 

  • To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on (a person or matter). 

  • To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose. 

  • To criticize or label another person or thing. 

justiciary

noun
  • A judgeship: a judge's jurisdiction, power, or office. 

  • The judiciary: a collective term for the court system or the body of judges, justices etc. 

  • Various equivalent medieval offices elsewhere in Europe. 

  • A believer in the doctrine (or heresy) that adherence to religious law redeems mankind before God. 

  • A justiciar: a high-ranking judicial officer of medieval England or Scotland. 

  • A magistrate. 

  • A judge or justice. 

  • A Chief Justiciar: the highest political and judicial officer of the Kingdom of England in the 12th and 13th centuries. 

adj
  • Judicial: of or relating to the administration of justice, judges, or judgeships. 

  • Of or relating to a circuit court held by one of the judges of the High Court of Justiciary. 

  • Of or relating to the High Court of Justiciary. 

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