Judicial
Judicial , adjective
[Latin judicialis, from judicium judgment, from judex judge: compare Old French judicial. See Judge.]
1.
Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proceedings; a judicial sale.
Judicial massacres.
Not a moral but a judicial law, and so was abrogated.
2.
Fitted or apt for judging or deciding; as, a judicial mind; judicial temperament.
3.
Belonging to the judiciary, as distinguished from legislative, administrative, or executive. See Executive.
4.
Judicious. [Obsolete] — B. Jonson