a. [f. L. jūdicāt-, ppl. stem of jūdicāre to judge + -IVE: see -ATIVE.] Having the function of judging.
1. Having the function of trying causes or passing sentences; judicial, juridical.
1641. Ld. Brooke, Eng. Episc., I. vi. 31. It hath a power Judicative, (or if you will Juridicall,) but not Legislative.
1752. Hume, Ess. Treat., Perf. Commw. (1817), I. 499. The senate possesses all the judicative authority of the House of Lords.
1818. Jas. Mill, Brit. India, IV. v. II. 200. They were thus exclusively vested with the judicative power.
2. Having the function of forming opinions.
1647. Faringdon, Serm., 120. It arises from some defect in the judicative faculty.
1678. Lively Orac., III. § 16. They … make solemn appeals to their judicative faculties.
