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The term "adjudge" has been employed in literature to convey the act of rendering a judgment or making a determination, often in a formal or quasi-judicial context. In Boethius’s work, the word is used to suggest that common people are prone to making hasty or uninformed determinations about fortune and reward [1]. In a more allegorical setting, Aesop presents an ape tasked with adjudging a dispute, emphasizing the idea of judgment even in the animal kingdom [2]. Meanwhile, Guy de Maupassant uses the term to highlight the struggle to label someone as insane, reflecting on societal perceptions of normalcy [3]. Livy, on the other hand, criticizes a judge who overstepped his bounds by self-adjudging property rights in a contentious dispute, thereby underlining the serious implications of impartiality in judgment [4].
  1. 'What of the good fortune which is given as reward of the good—do the vulgar adjudge it ba
    — from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
  2. An Ape undertook to adjudge the matter between them.
    — from Aesop's Fables by Aesop
  3. Now, Moiron seemed so normal, so quiet, so rational and sensible that it seemed impossible to adjudge him insane.
    — from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
  4. For what judge in a private cause ever acted in this way, so as to adjudge to himself the property in dispute?
    — from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

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