Fiscal vs Judge - What's the difference?
fiscal | judge |
Related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.
(proscribed) Pertaining to finance and money in general; financial.
A public official in certain countries having control of public revenue.
(British, Scottish law) Procurator fiscal, a public prosecutor.
(legal) In certain countries, including Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and former colonies of these countries and certain British colonies, solicitor or attorney general.
(senseid)A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
* Francis Bacon
A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
A person officiating at a sports or similar event.
A person whose opinion on a subject is respected.
* Dryden
To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.
To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
To form an opinion on.
To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
To form an opinion; to infer.
* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII
(intransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.
As nouns the difference between judge and fiscal
is that judge is (public judicial official)A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice while fiscal is a public official in certain countries having control of public revenue.As a verb judge
is to sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.As a proper noun Judge
is {{surname}.As an adjective fiscal is
related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.fiscal
English
(wikipedia fiscal)Etymology 1
From (etyl) fiscal, from (etyl) – see (fiscus) and (fisc).Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
* Not to be confused with (financial), which refers to money generally, particularly lending and banking, rather than narrowly to a treasury.Noun
(en noun)See also
* finance, financialEtymology 2
After (etyl)See also
* (Lanius) * (Lanius) ----judge
English
Alternative forms
* judg (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct the evidence; to moderate length, repetition, or impertinency of speech; to recapitulate, select, and collate the material points of that which hath been said; and to give the rule or sentence.
- At a boxing match the decision of the judges is final.
- He is a good judge of wine.
- A man who is no judge' of law may be a good ' judge of poetry, or eloquence, or of the merits of a painting.
Synonyms
* (one who judges or dispenses judgement) deemer, deemster * (official of the court) justice, sheriffDerived terms
* * * * * *Verb
(judg)- A higher power will judge you after you are dead.
- Justices in this country judge without appeal.
- I judge a man’s character by the cut of his suit.
- We cannot both be right: you must judge between us.
- I judge it safe to leave the house once again.
- I judge from the sky that it might rain later.
- THE sun was up so high when I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock.