ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]

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  1.  Determined, decided or settled judicially.

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c. 1374.  [See ADJUDGE 1.]

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1737.  Waterland, Euchar., 3. The Reports, Precedents, and adjudged Cases are allowed to be of considerable Weight for determining Points of Law.

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1742.  Fielding, Jos. Andr., II. iii. (1815), 49. It is an adjudged case and I have known it tried.

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1827.  Hallam, Const. Hist. (1876), III. xv. 157. Our law is mainly built on adjudged precedent.

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  † 2.  Judged, deemed, regarded, held. Obs.

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c. 1440.  Morte Arthure (Hall), 73. The gentileste jowelle ajuggede with lordes.

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1608.  Hieron, Wks., I. Qqq [689]. They are aiudged to be a kind of confining and limiting of God’s Spirit.

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  3.  Sentenced, doomed.

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1590.  Shaks., Com. Err., I. i. 147. Thou art adiudged to the death, And passed sentence may not be recal’d.

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1671.  Milton, Samson, 286. Without reprieve adjudged to death, For want of well pronouncing Shibboleth.

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  4.  Awarded judicially. See ADJUDICATION 4.

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1799.  J. Robertson, Agric. Perth, 433. If … the lease be forfeited or adjudged any time before the last years of the contract.

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