Accuse vs Judge - What's the difference?
accuse | judge |
To find fault with, to blame, to censure.
* (rfdate) (Epistle to the Romans) 2:15,
* (rfdate) ,
To charge with having committed a crime or offence.
* (rfdate) (Acts of the Apostles) 24:13,
To make an accusation against someone.
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, title= (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 a verb accuse
is .As a proper noun judge is
.accuse
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(accus)- Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.
- We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms.
- Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
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Usage notes
* (legal) When used this way accused is followed by the word of . * Synonym notes: To accuse , charge, impeach, arraign: these words agree in bringing home to a person the imputation of wrongdoing. ** To accuse'' is a somewhat formal act, and is applied usually (though not exclusively) to crimes; as, to ''accuse of treason. ** Charge'' is the most generic. It may refer to a crime, a dereliction of duty, a fault, etc.; more commonly it refers to moral delinquencies; as, to ''charge with dishonesty or falsehood. ** To arraign'' is to bring (a person) before a tribunal for trial; as, to ''arraign one before a court or at the bar public opinion. ** To impeach'' is officially to charge with misbehavior in office; as, to ''impeach a minister of high crimes. ** Both impeach'' and ''arraign convey the idea of peculiar dignity or impressiveness.Synonyms
* (legal) charge, indict, impeach, arraign * () blame, censure, reproach, criminateExternal links
* * * English reporting verbs ----judge
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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.