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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Judicial \Ju*di"cial\, a. [L. judicialis fr judicium judgment, fr judex judge: cf OF judicial. See {Judge}.] 1. Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as judicial power; judicial proceedings; a judicial sale. ``Judicial massacres.'' --Macaulay. Not a moral but a judicial law, and so was abrogated. --Milton. 2. Fitted or apt for judging or deciding; as a judicial mind. 3. Belonging to the judiciary, as distinguished from legislative, administrative, or executive. See {Executive}. 4. Judicious. [Obs.] --B. Jonson From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: judicial adj 1: decreed by or proceeding from a court of justice; "a judicial decision" 2: belonging or appropriate to the office of a judge; "judicial robes" 3: relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge; "judicial system" [syn: {juridical}, {juridic}] 4: expressing careful judgment; "discriminative censure"; "a biography ...appreciative and yet judicial in purpose"-Tyler Dennett [syn: {discriminative}]
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