rare. [f. prec.]
1. trans. To pass judgment upon, to give decision or pronounce an opinion concerning (some person or thing).
1594. Q. Elizabeth, in Tytler, Hist. Scot. (1864), IV. 349. We princes are set upon highest stage, where looks of all beholders verdict our works.
1634. Rainbow, Labour (1635), 16. Must a Iury of Trades be busied to verdict him readie?
2. intr. To pronounce a verdict or sentence against something.
1898. Literature, 12 Nov., 439. Lawful men of the neighbourhood … verdict entirely against their own temporal interest.
