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adjective

Judicatory adj. Pertaining to the administration of justice; dispensing justice; judicial; as, judicatory tribunals. "Power to reject in an authoritative or judicatory way."

noun

Judicatory n.

A court of justice; a tribunal.

Administration of justice. "The supreme court of judicatory."

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Etymology of 'Judicatory'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... he hath been constantly the judge of Fonsbeton, during which space of time he hath given four thousand definitive sentences, of two thousand three hundred and nine whereof, although appeal was made by the parties whom he had judicially condemned from his inferior judicatory to the supreme court of the parliament of Mirlingois, in Mirlingues, they were all of them nevertheless confirmed, ratified, and approved of by an order, decree, and final sentence of the said sovereign court, to the casting of the appellants, and utter overthrow of the suits ...

— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

... corruptions and generations in the world, are contained by this same now. But the mind is judge only of what is intelligible, as the sight is of light, by reason of its simplicity and similitude. But bodies, having several differences and diversities, are comprehended, some by one judicatory function, others by another, as by several organs. Yet they do not well who despise the discriminative faculty in us; for being great, it comprehends all sensibles, and attains to things divine. The chief thing he himself teaches in his Banquet, where he shows ...

— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch