adjudicative (adj.)

1809; see adjudicate + -ive. Perhaps modeled on French adjudicatif.

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1700, a back-formation from adjudication, or else from Latin adiudicatus, past participle of adiudicare "grant or award as a judge" (see adjudge). Related: Adjudicated; adjudicating.

-ive

word-forming element making adjectives from verbs, meaning "pertaining to, tending to; doing, serving to do," in some cases from Old French -if, but usually directly from Latin adjectival suffix -ivus (source also of Italian and Spanish -ivo). In some words borrowed from French at an early date it has been reduced to -y (as in hasty, tardy).

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Definitions of adjudicative

adjudicative (adj.)

concerned with adjudicating;

Synonyms: adjudicatory

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