Middle English Dictionary Entry
jū̆ǧer n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | jū̆ǧer n.(1) Also jugeoure, juggeour, juegour, juggoure. |
| Etymology | OF jugëor |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A judge; (b) an umpire at a tournament; (c) one who makes a judgment or forms an opinion.
Associated quotations
a
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)272/58 : Ye [Pilate] are gentill juger and justice of Jewes.
b
- a1450 Parton.(1) (UC C.188)8897 : These kynges shall be chyef Iugeoure [vr. Iuggoure].
- a1500(a1450) Parton.(1) (Add 35288)11163 : And eke to nye hir stode þe Iuegour.
- a1500(a1450) Parton.(1) (Add 35288)11206 : Þe Iuggeours wolde deme That she þat is so highe a queen Shuld not agre hir to so pore a knyght.
c
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)105 : In summe thingis thei ben iugid to be more gilti than thei ben..as tho same iugers schulden weel wite, if thei were homeli with the same prelatis.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)414 : Such a iuger schulde iuge ouer presumptuoseli.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)54/32 : Such seid forberyngis..taken þoruȝ a notable tyme into assaie of a persoone, seeme..to oþire considerers and iugers to be to þe persoone..proporcionable.