vbl. sb. [f. prec. + -ING1.]
† 1. An adjudging or awarding. Obs.
1700. Paper to W. Penn, 12. He does decree also an addiudicating of them upon that Account to eternal Glory.
2. A sitting in judgment, or pronouncing sentence, upon a claim. (Mostly gerundial.)
1842. Macaulay, Fredk. Gt., Ess. (1877), 675. Men whose lives were passed in adjudicating on questions of civil right.
