Judicially

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] In a judicial manner.

  1.  In the way of legal judgment, or in the office or capacity of judge; in, by, or in relation to the administration of justice; by legal process; by sentence of a court of justice.

1465.  Paston Lett., II. 223. Judicialy syttyng the seyde M. R.

1542.  Hen. VIII., Declar. Scots, B iv b. Regesters and Recordes iudicially and autentiquely made.

1617.  Moryson, Itin., II. 16. Indited, though absent, and condemned judicially of Treason.

1783.  Ainsworth’s Lat. Dict. (Morell), IV. s.v. Ulysses, for which reason, the armour of Achilles was judicially given to him, rather than to Ajax.

1863.  H. Cox, Instit., III. vii. 695. As late as 1735, Sir Robert Walpole sat judicially in the Exchequer.

1865.  Lecky, Ration., I. i. 132. The last who perished judicially in England.

  b.  Theol. In the way of a divine judgment or punishment.

1654.  Fuller, Two Serm., 66. God … may judicially harden those from whom his Grace is withdrawne, for making no better use thereof.

1782.  Cowper, Lett., Wks. 1837, XV. 122. Though I love my country, I hate its follies and its sins, and had rather see it scourged in mercy, than judicially hardened by prosperity.

1835.  J. H. Newman, Par. Serm. (1836), II. x. 123. The multitude of sinners judicially blinded.

  2.  After the manner of a judge; with judicial knowledge and skill; critically.

1572–87.  Holinshed, Chron., III. 1402/2. A noble mind iudiciallie grounded vpon the truth of diuine philosophie.

1617.  Moryson, Itin., III. 37. I would have a Traveller … speake of those things, whereof he could discourse most eloquently and judicially.

1868.  Freeman, Norm. Conq., II. viii. 165. He judicially sums up what was good and what was evil in him.

  † b.  So as to determine something; determinatively. Obs.

1609.  Douland, Ornith. Microl., 51. Rests are placed in Songs … Essentially, when they betoken silence. Iudicially, when they betoken not silence but the perfect Moode: and then their place is before the signe of Time.

  † 3.  With sound judgment, judiciously. Obs.

1600.  E. Blount, trans. Conestaggio, 81. All agreed that the King … had not dealt therein iudicially, saying it was a meane to breed contention.

1653.  Walton, Angler, iv. 108. I find Mr. Thomas Barker … deal so judicially and freely in a little book of his of Angling.