Assume the right to judge someone, especially in a critical manner: this total stranger was actually daring to sit in judgement...- Their description of the horrors they came across were reported to the judges who later sat in judgement on the leaders of the Reich and must have influenced them in some way.
- They don't want judges from other countries sitting in judgement on their soldiers and politicians.
- For example, pretty much everyone agrees that a judge should not sit in judgment in a case on appeal if he participated in the decision below.
See parent entry: judgement