[f. ADJUDICATE + -URE, as if ad. L. *adjūdicātūra.] The process of adjudicating: adjudication.
1859. F. W. Robertson, Lect. on 1 Cor. iii. 110, (1878), 40. The difficulty in social adjudicature is, to determine who ought to be the leaders, and who are to be the led; to abolish false aristocracies, and to establish the true.