Crossword clues for judicatory
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Judicatory \Ju"di*ca*to*ry\, a. [L. judicatorius.]
Pertaining to the administration of justice; dispensing
justice; judicial; as, judicatory tribunals.
--T. Wharton.
Power to reject in an authoritative or judicatory way.
--Bp. Hall.
Judicatory \Ju"di*ca*to*ry\ (277), n. [L. judicatorium.]
A court of justice; a tribunal.
--Milton.-
Administration of justice.
The supreme court of judicatory.
--Clarendon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from French judicatoire, from Late Latin iudicatorius "judicial, pertaining to judgment," from iudicat-, past participle stem of Latin iudicare "to judge" (see judge (v.)).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Pertaining to judgement, or to passing a sentence. 2 By which a judgement can be made; decisive, critical. n. 1 (context chiefly in Scotland English) A court or tribunal 2 judicature
WordNet
n. the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government [syn: judiciary, judicature, judicial system]
Usage examples of "judicatory".
Parliaments, without the which neither any laws or lawful judicatories can be established, Acts 130 and 131, Parl.
Ministers: and seeing we can neither with safety to our persons, nor freedom in our consciences, compear before the Judicatories, while these defections are not acknowledged and removed, so we must, so long decline them, and hereby do decline them, as unfaithful judges in such matters: in regard they have, in so great a measure, yielded up the priviledges of the Church into the hands and will of her enemies, and carried on a course of defection contrar to the Scriptures, our Covenants, and the acts and constitutions of this our Church.
Topsy was cited, and had up before all the domestic judicatories, time and again.