verdict
English
Etymology
From Middle English verdit, from Old French verdit, from veir (“true”) + dit (“saying”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvɝ.dɪkt/
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Noun
verdict (plural verdicts)
- (law) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.
- The jury returned a "not guilty" verdict.
- 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:
- Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
- An opinion or judgement.
- a "not out" verdict from the umpire
Derived terms
- bastard verdict
- open verdict
- Scottish verdict
- special verdict
- verdictive
Translations
decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest
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opinion or judgement
Middle English
Old French
Noun
verdict m (oblique plural verdicz or verdictz, nominative singular verdicz or verdictz, nominative plural verdict)
- Alternative form of verdit
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