vbl. sb. [f. ADJUDGE + -ING1.] The action of deciding judicially, sentencing, decreeing or awarding. (Now mostly gerundial.)
1689. Myst. Iniq., 24. We had a new Court of Inquisition erected for the adjudging and punishing of them.
1734. trans. Rollin’s Anc. Hist. (1827), I. 151. The adjudging the prize of glory to him.
Mod. In adjudging him the victor.
