adjudge

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
adjudge/əˈʤʌʤ/

▶verb

• 1 consider or declare to be true or the case.

• 2 (in legal use) award (compensation).

  ■ condemn (someone) to pay a penalty.

– derivatives
adjudgement (also adjudgment) noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. ajuger, from L. adjudicare, from ad- ‘to’ + judicare, from judex, judic- ‘a judge’.