| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| adjudicate |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ad·ju·di·cate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -j  d -k t |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: ad·ju·di·cat·ed, ad·ju·di·cat·ing, ad·ju·di·cates
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To hear and settle (a case) by judicial procedure. 2. To study and settle (a dispute or conflict): The principal adjudicated our quarrel. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To act as a judge. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin adi dicre, adidict-, to award to (judicially) : ad-, ad- + idicre, to judge (from idex, judge; see judge). | | OTHER FORMS: | ad·judi·cation —NOUN
ad·judi·cative —ADJECTIVE
ad·judi·cator —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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