Middle English Dictionary Entry
jūdiciāl adj. & n.
Entry Info
| Forms | jūdiciāl adj. & n. Also judicielle. |
| Etymology | L & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Pertaining to a judge or a court of law; also, pertaining to Judgment Day; ~ gate, ?a gate where cases were tried; ~ honde, judicial power; ~ se (sete), a judge's chair; also, a court of law; (b) pertaining to religious laws or regulations, esp. those of the Old Testament; (c) having to do with the rules of astrology, technical.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))2 Esd.3.30 : After hym bilde Melchias..vnto the hous of sodeknys, and of the men sellende sheldis aȝen the judicial ȝate [WB(2): ȝate of iugis; L portam Judicialem].
- c1425 Found.St.Barth.12/26 : Aboue the water drye was deputid and ordeyned to the Iubeit or galowys of thevys and to the tormente of othir that were dampnyd by Iudicialle auctoryte.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.Te Deum (Hrl 2255)58 : Ihesu..At the Iudicial day of Iugement Dyvynely there shal come.
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)2683 : He bad men fla hym quyk out of his skynne And þer-with keuyr þe iudicial see.
- c1450 Spec.Chr.(2) (Hrl 6580)184/9 : Ȝe schal sitte on iudicial seetes demynge.
- a1475(a1456) Shirley Death Jas.(Add 5467)25 : I know wele that I shall nowe dye and ma note escape youre venomous judiciall handes.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)367/24 : They to haue I-said and ferme or sure..Without Iudiciall noyse of Iuge.
- a1500(1445) ?Lydg.Marg.Entry (Hrl 3869)158 : The ferefull sowne of Trumpe Iudiciall, Vppon the poeple yt sodeynly shall calle.
- a1500 Rolle Mend.L.(Wor F.172)35 : He hath graunted hem and yoven a judicial power.
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)p.101 : Constantyne noble..sette his throne emperiall, And, for his domes, his sea iudiciall.
b
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.363 : Ȝif þei wolden be juste, þei mosten kepe cerymonyes and many lawis judicialis þat us nediþ not now to kepe.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)118/24 : Alle þe dedis vocaly bi strengþe of þo wordis signified, bi wordis writen in þo x comaundementis, ben pure moral ech oon, and not cerymonial neiþir iudicial.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)152/28 : Þe iije seid comaundement abidiþ noon oþir wise þan abidiþ eny oþir comaundement in moyses lawe of halowing or of fasting or of eny oþir iudicial or cerymonye doing.
c
- a1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)2.4.64 : These ben observaunces of judicial matere and rytes of payens, in whiche my spirit hath no feith, ne knowing of her horoscopum.
- c1475(?c1451) Worcester Bk.Noblesse (Roy 18.B.22)60 : Clerkis..taken upon them the connyng of judicielle matieris to know the impressions of the heire and be not expertid, and be this maner the noble science of suche judicielle mater in causis naturelle concernyng the influence of the bodies of hevyn ben defamed and rebukid.
2.
As noun: (a) a religious law or regulation; (b) a judgment, decision.
Associated quotations
a
- c1400 Wycl.Dominion (Dub 244)285 : Sermonyalis of þe oolde lawe & summe iudycialis bynden nouȝt now.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)18 : The positijf lawe of the cerymonyes, iudicialis, and sacramentalis weren ȝouen to the Iewis.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)526 : God ordeyned the cerymonyalis and the iudicialis.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)129/16 : Al cerymonials and iudicials of þe iewis lawe ben ceesid.
b
- 1447 Bokenham Sts.(Arun 327)5480 : It semyth to me, Aftyr þe iudycyal of uery resoun..most holdyn was he Wych of hys dette had most pardoun.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1500(a1450) Ashmole SSecr.(Ashm 396)73/23 : The strengh judicial in prophecie or philosophie, that specialy medleth with intellectual fourmes, hath the rule till 25.
Note: For. 1.(d), provisionally glossed 'capable of, or concerned with, passing judgment'.
- a1450(a1397) WBible(2) GProl.(Hrl 1666)3 : Judicials techen domes…and the iudicials of Moises lawe weren ful iust and profitable for men…Netheles…cristen men ben not bounden to kepe the iudicials of Moyses lawe, that was endid in the tyme of Cristis passioun.
Note: Not included in 2.(a) but should be.--per MJW