judicatorialadj.

a1656 J. Ussher Protestant School (1681) 104/2 Judicatorial.

1691 P. King Enq. Constit. Primitive Church i. vii. 115 As for the Legislative, Decretive, or Judicatorial Power, that appertained both to Clergy and Laity.

1717 D. Defoe Mem. Church of Scotl. 317 The Government..was no sooner establish'd by the Revolution, and the Kirk restor'd to her Judicatorial Authority, [etc.].

1771 Disguise I. Pref. p. v I cannot suppose that any critic, treated on high in judicatorial dignity, will condescend to glance his scrutinizing eye over my insignificant performance.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India III. vi. ii. 80 That very assembly..which had already decreed, in its legislative capacity, that such evidence was useful, now, in its judicatorial capacity, decreed that it was the reverse.

1854 Year-bk. Amer. Congregational Union 312 At what time..have the masses of human mind been more impatient of political authority, or judicatorial restraint..than at the present moment?

1903 G. Atherton Mrs. Pendleton's Four-in-hand vi. 85 ‘Gentlemen,’ she said, and even her voice was judicatorial.

2001 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 106 1811 These actions point to the ways judicatorial whims, rather than iron cage–like rules, influenced local institutional behaviors.