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judgment

ˈʤəʤmənt
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A detail from the fresco 'The Last Judgment' by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel. Marked lower right: D.
A detail from the fresco 'The Last Judgment' by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel. Marked lower right: D.
  1. (n) judgment
    the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event "they criticized my judgment of the contestants"
  2. (n) judgment
    (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
  3. (n) judgment
    the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
  4. (n) judgment
    the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
  5. (n) judgment
    the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
  6. (n) judgment
    an opinion formed by judging something "he was reluctant to make his judgment known","she changed her mind"
  7. (n) judgment
    the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision "opinions are usually written by a single judge"
Illustrations
The judgment of Paris in a setting of scrolls with female herms, mascarons, putti and garlands. Sheet in a series consisting of a title page and 15 of the 16 sheets with cartouches with biblical and mythological scenes in a frame of scrolls and grotesques.
The judgment of Paris in a setting of scrolls with female herms, mascarons, putti and garlands. Sheet in a series consisting of a title page and 15 of the 16 sheets with cartouches with biblical and mythological scenes in a frame of scrolls and grotesques.
Relief with the judgment of Solomon in the Vierschaar of the City Hall on Dam Square in Amsterdam. King Solomon, from his throne, points with his staff a kneeling woman with a baby, while an executioner is about to divide the child in two. Solomon had given this order to the executioner after two women came to him, both claiming the motherhood of a child. When the executioner raised his sword, the real mother wanted to part with the child, so Solomon knew who the real mother was. De Vierschaar was a public court that was only used by bailiffs and aldermen to pronounce death sentences. Below the picture two columns, each with three lines of Latin text. Marked at the bottom center: A.
Relief with the judgment of Solomon in the Vierschaar of the City Hall on Dam Square in Amsterdam. King Solomon, from his throne, points with his staff a kneeling woman with a baby, while an executioner is about to divide the child in two. Solomon had given this order to the executioner after two women came to him, both claiming the motherhood of a child. When the executioner raised his sword, the real mother wanted to part with the child, so Solomon knew who the real mother was. De Vierschaar was a public court that was only used by bailiffs and aldermen to pronounce death sentences. Below the picture two columns, each with three lines of Latin text. Marked at the bottom center: A.
The Judgment of Paris in a Landscape. The seated Paris makes his choice for Venus. Behind him is Mercury. Juno and Minerva are standing on the right, surrounded by putti. On the left two old and a young satyr. Above Apollo and Luna on their chariots, pulled by horses.
The Judgment of Paris in a Landscape. The seated Paris makes his choice for Venus. Behind him is Mercury. Juno and Minerva are standing on the right, surrounded by putti. On the left two old and a young satyr. Above Apollo and Luna on their chariots, pulled by horses.
The Judgment of Paris. The shepherd Paris must judge the three most beautiful goddesses of Olympus for their beauty: Juno (indicated in the print with the peacock), Minerva (helmet and shield) and Venus (accompanied by Amor). He gives the golden apple of Eris, the goddess of Twist, to Venus because she promises him the love of the most beautiful woman in the world (Helen of Sparta). Venus is therefore crowned in the print with a laurel wreath. Besides Paris, Venus, Juno and Minerva, Mercury can also be identified, which sits next to Paris. On the left are Oeneus, the river god and his daughter Oenone, who was the beloved of Paris at the time, On the top left, several other gods are watching the spectacle: Aeolus, Diana, Apollo, Jupiter, Ceres, Vulcanus and Helios
The Judgment of Paris. The shepherd Paris must judge the three most beautiful goddesses of Olympus for their beauty: Juno (indicated in the print with the peacock), Minerva (helmet and shield) and Venus (accompanied by Amor). He gives the golden apple of Eris, the goddess of Twist, to Venus because she promises him the love of the most beautiful woman in the world (Helen of Sparta). Venus is therefore crowned in the print with a laurel wreath. Besides Paris, Venus, Juno and Minerva, Mercury can also be identified, which sits next to Paris. On the left are Oeneus, the river god and his daughter Oenone, who was the beloved of Paris at the time, On the top left, several other gods are watching the spectacle: Aeolus, Diana, Apollo, Jupiter, Ceres, Vulcanus and Helios
Judgment of Count Willem III on the bailiff of South Holland. Central depiction: Count Willem III hands his sword to the executioner from his sickbed. In the foreground the bailiff of Dordrecht is kneeling, on the right the bailiff is being confessed by a priest in preparation for his execution. Central show with six small scenes of the successive episodes of the story of the jurisprudence of Count Willem III in the year 1336. For each show a caption consisting of a saying and a verse of two columns of eight lines. Numbered 1-5 and 7. The central presentation numbered 6. Hereby a caption of 4 columns and a description in 6 columns. 1: The bailiff tries to buy the cow from the farmer. On the right the bailiff of South Holland with a bag of money, on the left the farmer and his family. In the background, the cow is being milked by the farmer's wife. 2: The bailiff takes the farmer's cow away after exchanging it for a lesser one. In the background, the farmer and his family look on helplessly. 3: The bailiff complains to Count William III who is sick in bed in Valenciennes. 4: The bailiff of Dordrecht receives the letter from Count Willem III asking him to come to the court of Valenciennes with the bailiff of South Holland. 5: Count Willem III, lying in bed, hears the stories of the farmer, on the left, and the bailiff of South Holland, standing on the right next to the bailiff of Dordrecht. 7: The bailiff of Dordrecht pays the farmer his fee of 100 gold pieces. On the right, the widow of the bailiff of South Holland mourns over the coffin of her executed husband. At the bottom also a depiction of the personification of Justice (Justitia) with executions in the background (possibly in connection with the execution of Pieter Panne in 1598 for his failed attack on Prince Maurits). Entirely in an ornamental border.
Judgment of Count Willem III on the bailiff of South Holland. Central depiction: Count Willem III hands his sword to the executioner from his sickbed. In the foreground the bailiff of Dordrecht is kneeling, on the right the bailiff is being confessed by a priest in preparation for his execution. Central show with six small scenes of the successive episodes of the story of the jurisprudence of Count Willem III in the year 1336. For each show a caption consisting of a saying and a verse of two columns of eight lines. Numbered 1-5 and 7. The central presentation numbered 6. Hereby a caption of 4 columns and a description in 6 columns. 1: The bailiff tries to buy the cow from the farmer. On the right the bailiff of South Holland with a bag of money, on the left the farmer and his family. In the background, the cow is being milked by the farmer's wife. 2: The bailiff takes the farmer's cow away after exchanging it for a lesser one. In the background, the farmer and his family look on helplessly. 3: The bailiff complains to Count William III who is sick in bed in Valenciennes. 4: The bailiff of Dordrecht receives the letter from Count Willem III asking him to come to the court of Valenciennes with the bailiff of South Holland. 5: Count Willem III, lying in bed, hears the stories of the farmer, on the left, and the bailiff of South Holland, standing on the right next to the bailiff of Dordrecht. 7: The bailiff of Dordrecht pays the farmer his fee of 100 gold pieces. On the right, the widow of the bailiff of South Holland mourns over the coffin of her executed husband. At the bottom also a depiction of the personification of Justice (Justitia) with executions in the background (possibly in connection with the execution of Pieter Panne in 1598 for his failed attack on Prince Maurits). Entirely in an ornamental border.
Allegory of death, symbolized by the Last Judgment. Man (Homo), surrounded by the divine virtues (Charitas, Fides and Spes) and Divine Mercy (Gratia), kneels in adoration before the Trinity. In the foreground, dead people lie at the edge of the gate to hell. In the margin a four-line caption, in two columns, in Latin.
Allegory of death, symbolized by the Last Judgment. Man (Homo), surrounded by the divine virtues (Charitas, Fides and Spes) and Divine Mercy (Gratia), kneels in adoration before the Trinity. In the foreground, dead people lie at the edge of the gate to hell. In the margin a four-line caption, in two columns, in Latin.
Jurisprudence of Count Willem III. In the center a large representation of the judgment of Count William III the Good about the bailiff of South Holland. The count, lying in his sickbed, reaches out his sword to the executioner. The bailiff's confession is heard on the right. The bailiff of Dordrecht kneels by the bed. Around this six small scenes from the other episodes of the story, each with two verses of two lines as caption. Below the presentation a text in six columns in Dutch.
Jurisprudence of Count Willem III. In the center a large representation of the judgment of Count William III the Good about the bailiff of South Holland. The count, lying in his sickbed, reaches out his sword to the executioner. The bailiff's confession is heard on the right. The bailiff of Dordrecht kneels by the bed. Around this six small scenes from the other episodes of the story, each with two verses of two lines as caption. Below the presentation a text in six columns in Dutch.
Blindfolded Solomon is about to pass judgment on the two women who claim to be the mother of a particular child; in this print they are presented as the good and the bad church. At the bottom right of the scene six lines from Exodus.
Blindfolded Solomon is about to pass judgment on the two women who claim to be the mother of a particular child; in this print they are presented as the good and the bad church. At the bottom right of the scene six lines from Exodus.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals
  1. Judgment
    A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment. "Judgments are prepared for scorners.", "This judgment of the heavens that makes us tremble."
  2. Judgment
    (Philos) 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.
  3. Judgment
    (Philos) That power or faculty by which knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2.
  4. Judgment
    The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision. "She in my judgment was as fair as you.", "Who first his judgment asked, and then a place."
  5. Judgment
    (Theol) The final award; the last sentence.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Michelangelo's Last Judgment, which hangs on the walls of the Sistine Chapel, drew some harsh criticism from one of the Vatican's officials because of the nudity. So Michelangelo made some changes to his work: he painted in the face of the complaining clergyman and added a donkey's ears and a snake's tail.
  1. (n) judgment
    The faculty of judging.
  2. (n) judgment
    Specifically— The intellectual power of perceiving relations between ideas, as the relations of similarity, difference, etc.
  3. (n) judgment
    The act of judging. The act of affirming (or denying) a relation (as of similarity or difference) between two ideas.
  4. (n) judgment
    The process of arriving at a conclusion or decision; the determination of a doubtful or debatable matter.
  5. (n) judgment
    The product of the mental act of judging; the recognition of a relation between objects; a mental affirmation or proposition; the thought that a given general representation is really applicable to a certain object; the actual consciousness of belief. The Kantian logicians speak of judgments where other logicians speak of propositions, in order to show that they study thought, and not merely its expression in language.
  6. (n) judgment
    The decision of a judge, or of one acting as a judge; an authoritative determination; specifically, the judicial decision of a cause in court; adjudication; award; sentence.
  7. (n) judgment
    Specifically— the determination of the rights of the parties in a common-law action, as distinguished from a decree in chancery
  8. (n) judgment
    the determination of the rights of the parties in any action, legal or equitable, under the reformed procedure
  9. (n) judgment
    the document embodying such determination. When those rights have been conceded, or established by evidence, and it only remains to compel compliance with the judgment, the judgment is called final. If before enforcing the judgment it is necessary to take proceedings to determine the application of those rights—as, for instance, to take an accounting, or to turn lands or chattels into money for the purpose of division—the determination of the rights of the parties first had is an interlocutory judgment or decree; and after such further proceedings have been had the court gives a final judgment or decree, which can be immediately enforced.
  10. (n) judgment
    An opinion formed or put forth; a conclusion drawn from premises; a decision based on observation or belief; an estimate; a view.
  11. (n) judgment
    A divine allotment or dispensation; a decree or commandment of God; specifically, an event or experience regarded as a direct manifestation of the divine will, especially of the divine displeasure.
  12. (n) judgment
    The final trial of the human race in the future state; the judgment-day.
  13. (n) judgment
    See the adjectives.
  14. (n) judgment
    Hence— In modern practice, the documents (usually the process complaint, answer, verdict or findings and judgment thereon) fastened and folded together, and filed as the record of the judgment.
  15. (n) judgment
    Synonyms Judgment, Sagacity, Perspicacity; discrimination, penetration, wisdom, brains. Judgment, as compared with sagacity and perspicacity, is a general word: as, sound judgment in business; good judgment as to cloths. Sagacity is a power to discern the real facts of a situation, to see the course that is wisest to avoid failure or achieve success. (See astute.) Sagacity is especially the word applied to brutes that have a large discernment and a quickness of mind like those of man. Perspicacity is essentially the same as discernment, except that it is more vividly figurative, suggesting the actual use of the eyes in looking into things. See discernment. Verdict, Report, etc. See decision and inference.- Taste, Judgment (see taste); opinion, belief, conclusion.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. Judgment
    act of judging: the comparing of ideas to elicit truth: faculty by which this is done, the reason: opinion formed: taste: sentence: condemnation: doom
Quotations
Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
William Wycherley
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
William Wycherley
William Shakespeare
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
William Shakespeare
Desiderius Erasmus
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Desiderius Erasmus
Short judgments make long friends.
Proverb
Wayne Dyer
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
Wayne Dyer
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. jugement, F. jugement, LL. judicamentum, fr. L. judicare,. See Judge (v. i.)

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Fr. juger—L. judicārejus, law, dicĕre, to declare.

Usage in the news

Maximillian Schell in Judgment at Nuremberg. hollywoodreporter.com

The 80-year-old filmmaker will attend a screening of and Q&A about "Judgment at Nuremberg," the film which earned him a best actor Oscar 50 years ago. hollywoodreporter.com

They have always existed, the people who are harsh in judgment and unkind. leaderherald.com

Jerome Ersland may have a mental disorder that affected his judgment when the pharmacist fatally shot a robber. newsok.com

Even an employer who avoids trial and prevails on summary judgment will ring up a defense bill of $100,000. online.wsj.com

Whatever ground Google picked up in its summary judgment victory against Viacom, the company wants to make sure there's no back-door intrusion in the Hotfile case. hollywoodreporter.com

Loud muffler can be judgment. mankatofreepress.com

New research shows that, though religious skeptics exhibit the worst ethical judgment, narcissistic believers aren't far behind. theatlantic.com

Judgment Day is nigh . cortezjournal.com

Judgment Day Draws Nigh for Obamacare. spectator.org

Susan Beck's Summary Judgment: Google and Facebook Denials in FTC Cases Strike Orwellian Note. americanlawyer.com

The overseers lend their expertise and judgment to the trustees and management on a wide range of topics, including development, marketing, finance, real estate, government relations, education outreach, and ancillary activities. metrocorpcounsel.com

Against my better judgment, I have purchased a peony bush. tricityvoice.com

We must wait to pass judgment . ashingtonpost.com

Allow me to pass judgment Joe Mason PhillyBurbs.com. phillyburbs.com

Usage in scientific papers

For a reasoned and informed judgment a deeper investigation is thus warranted.
Degenerate Configurations, Singularities and the Non-Abelian Nature of Loop Quantum Gravity

These roles range from the careful assessment of the evidence against specific scientific hypotheses to the judgment of whether an estimated model displays decent goodness of fit to the empirical data.
Tailor-made tests for goodness of fit to semiparametric hypotheses

Veni program, whereas the relation between the referee’s judgment is expected to be stronger in these two cases. Figure 21 shows the averages quality indicators by instrument.
Past Performance as Predictor of Successful Grant Applications: A Case Study

However, differences in the referees’ judgments are substantial and significant (table 21).
Past Performance as Predictor of Successful Grant Applications: A Case Study

Success correlates with referee judgments, but if we restrict the analysis to the best 550 applicants, this is not the case anymore in the OC and the Veni program.
Past Performance as Predictor of Successful Grant Applications: A Case Study

Usage in literature

If they are wrong, other judgments, judgments of approval presumably, ought to be in their place. "The Will to Believe" by William James

Nor have we any right to call it an ignoble judgment, if he determine to put them in order, as for sleep. "The Crown of Wild Olive" by John Ruskin

How could he, if alive, execute such judgment on his brother as God here executes? "Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II" by Martin Luther

At the same time, with admirable judgment, he offered to submit the case to the Supreme Court, and to abide by its decision. "Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)" by Thomas Babington Macaulay

Happily, this delusion is nearly at an end; and some of them are beginning to act on their own judgments. "Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments" by Various

So dangerous a point was the name of a general assembly in king James's jealous judgment. "Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies)" by John Howie

It condemns, mortifies and opposes whatever, in man's judgment, is good and well-pleasing. "Epistle Sermons, Vol. II" by Martin Luther

What, in your judgment, is the range of individual differences? "Introduction to the Science of Sociology" by Robert E. Park

The effect which all this erudition had upon the Abbe de Longuerue's taste, judgment, and imagination, is worth our attention. "Practical Education, Volume II" by Maria Edgeworth

Has Scott used up his energy, his sense, and even his military judgment in defending Washington before the inauguration? "Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862" by Adam Gurowski

Usage in poetry
For them no more shall reveille
Sound at the break of dawn,
But may their sleep peaceful be
Till God's great judgment morn.
How calm the Judgment hour shall pass
To all who do obey
The Word of God, and trust the Blood,
And make that Word their stay!
Thy justice shall maintain its throne,
Though mountains melt away;
Thy judgments are a world unknown,
A deep, unfathomed sea.
Then who can say, the Painter here,
Hath shew'd nor Art, nor Skill?
For sure, if Judgment's reckon'd aught,
He has perform'd not ill.
For these four things come on apace,
Which we should know full well,
Both death and judgment, and, in place
Next to them, heaven and hell.
"Then wheel my horse against the foe!"
He's down and overpast, my lord.
You war against the sunset-glow,
The judgment follows fast, my lord!