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Judge is a related term of pundit.


As a proper noun judge

is .

As a noun pundit is

a learned person in india; someone with knowledge of sanskrit, philosophy, religion and law; a hindu scholar.

judge

English

Alternative forms

* judg (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (senseid)A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • 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.
  • 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.
    • At a boxing match the decision of the judges is final.
  • A person whose opinion on a subject is respected.
    • He is a good judge of wine.
  • * Dryden
    • 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, sheriff

    Derived terms

    * * * * * *

    Verb

    (judg)
  • To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.
    • A higher power will judge you after you are dead.
  • To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
    • Justices in this country judge without appeal.
  • To form an opinion on.
    • I judge a man’s character by the cut of his suit.
  • To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
    • We cannot both be right: you must judge between us.
  • To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
    • I judge it safe to leave the house once again.
  • To form an opinion; to infer.
    • I judge from the sky that it might rain later.
  • * 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII
    • THE sun was up so high when I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock.
  • (intransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * * *

    Related terms

    * abjudge * abjudicate * adjudicate * judgment * judicator * judicial * judiciary * prejudice * magistrate

    pundit

    English

    (wikipedia pundit)

    Alternative forms

    * pandit

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A learned person in India; someone with knowledge of Sanskrit, philosophy, religion and law; a Hindu scholar.
  • * 1888 , (Rudyard Kipling), ‘On the City Wall’, In Black and White , Folio Society 2005, p. 430:
    • Pundits in black gowns, with spectacles on their noses and undigested wisdom in their insides; bearded headmen of the wards; [...] all these people and more also you might find in the white room.
  • (historical) A native surveyor in British India, trained to carry out clandestine surveillance beyond British borders.
  • * 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 295:
    • At every hundredth pace the Pundit would automatically slip one bead. Each complete circuit of the rosary thus represented ten thousand paces.
  • A self-professed expert in a particular field, especially as called upon to provide comment or opinion in the media; a commentator, a critic.
  • * 2006 , The Observer , 4 Jun 2006:
    • This week we introduce Jenny Walker, who will be The Observer's expert pundit for the duration of the World Cup.

    See also

    * hafiz, hafez * pandit * qari'