1.  judicial(s = adj.all) - decreed by or proceeding from a court of justice; "a judicial decision"
Derived form noun judge₁

2.  judicial(a = adj.pert) - belonging or appropriate to the office of a judge; "judicial robes"
Derived form noun judge₁

3.  judicial(a = adj.pert) juridic, juridical - relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge; "judicial system"
Derived form noun judge₁

4.  judicial(s = adj.all) discriminative - expressing careful judgment; "discriminative censure"; "a biography ...appreciative and yet judicial in purpose"
Derived form noun judge₂

1.  Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proceedings; a judicial sale. Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
"Not a moral but a judicial law, and so was abrogated." [1913 Webster]

2.  Fitted or apt for judging or deciding; as, a judicial mind; judicial temperament. [1913 Webster]

3.  Belonging to the judiciary, as distinguished from legislative, administrative, or executive. See Executive. [1913 Webster]

4.  Judicious. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]

judicial, adj.
1 of, done by, or proper to a court of law.
2 having the function of judgement (a judicial assembly).
3 of or proper to a judge.
4 expressing a judgement; critical.
5 impartial.
6 regarded as a divine judgement.

Idiom:
judicial factor Sc. an official receiver. judicial separation the separation of man and wife by decision of a court.

Derivative:
judicially adv.

Etymology:
ME f. L judicialis f. judicium judgement f. judex JUDGE

N  jurisdiction, judicature, administration of justice, soc, executive, commission of the peace, magistracy, judge, tribunal, municipality, corporation, bailiwick, shrievalty, lord lieutenant, sheriff, shire reeve, shrieve, constable, selectman, police, police force, the fuzz, constabulary, bumbledom, gendarmerie, officer, bailiff, tipstaff, bum-bailiff, catchpoll, beadle, policeman, cop, police constable, police sergeant, sbirro, alguazil, gendarme, kavass, lictor, mace bearer, huissier, bedel, tithingman, press gang, exciseman, gauger, gager, customhouse officer, douanier, coroner, edile, aedile, portreeve, paritor, posse comitatus, bureau, cutcherry, department, secretariat, long arm of the law, extradition, executive, administrative, municipal, inquisitorial, causidical, judicatory, judiciary, judicial, juridical, coram judice.

N  tribunal, court, board, bench, judicatory, court of justice, court of law, court of arbitration, administrative court, inquisition, guild, justice seat, judgment seat, mercy seat, woolsack, bar of justice, dock, forum, hustings, bureau, drumhead, jury box, witness box, senate house, town hall, theater, House of Commons, House of Lords, statehouse, townhouse, assize, eyre, wardmote, burghmote, barmote, superior courts of Westminster, court of record, court oyer and terminer, court assize, court of appeal, court of error, High court of Judicature, High court of Appeal, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Star Chamber, Court of Chancery, Court of King's or Queen's Bench, Court of Exchequer, Court of Common Pleas, Court of Probate, Court of Arches, Court of Admiralty, Lords Justices' court, Rolls court, Vice Chancellor's court, Stannary court, Divorce court, Family court, Palatine court, county court, district court, police court, sessions, quarter sessions, petty sessions, court-leet, court-baron, court of pie poudre, court of common council, board of green cloth, court martial, drumhead court martial, durbar, divan, Areopagus, Irota, judicial, appellate, die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht.

N  judge, justice, justiciar, justiciary, chancellor, justice of assize, judge of assize, recorder, common sergeant, puisne judge, assistant judge, county court judge, conservator of the peace, justice of the peace, J, P, court, magistrate, police magistrate, beak, his worship, his honor, his lordship, jury, twelve men in a box, Lord Chancellor, Lord Justice, Master of the Rolls, Vice Chancellor, Lord Chief Justice, Chief Baron, Mr, Justice, Associate Justice, Chief Justice, Baron, Baron of the Exchequer, jurat, assessor, arbiter, arbitrator, umpire, referee, referendary, revising barrister, domesman, censor, barmaster, ephor, grand juror, grand juryman, juryman, talesman, archon, tribune, praetor, syndic, podesta, mollah, ulema, mufti, cadi, kadi, Rhadamanthus, litigant, judicial, a Daniel come to judgment.

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