judicial Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite decreed by or proceeding from a court of justice
    • a judicial decision
  2. adjective belonging or appropriate to the office of a judge
    • judicial robes
  3. adjective relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge
    juridical; juridic.
    • judicial system
  4. adjective satellite expressing careful judgment
    discriminative.
    • discriminative censure
    • a biography ...appreciative and yet judicial in purpose"-Tyler Dennett

WordNet

Ju*di"cial adjective
Etymology
L. judicialis, fr. judicium judgment, fr. judex judge: cf. OF. judicial. See Judge.
Definitions
  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. "Judicial massacres." Macaulay.
    Not a moral but a judicial law, and so was abrogated. Milton.
  2. Fitted or apt for judging or deciding; as, a judicial mind.
  3. Belonging to the judiciary, as distinguished from legislative, administrative, or executive. See Executive.
  4. Judicious. Obs. B. Jonson.

Webster 1913