[f. JUDGE v. + -ER1. Cf. AF. juggeour.] One who or that which judges (in various senses), a judge; usually, one who forms, or who is (well or ill) qualified to form, an opinion.

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c. 1449.  Pecock, Repr., 414. Such a iuger schulde iuge ouer presumptuoseli.

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1556.  J. Heywood, Spider & F., xcii. 51. Wrong iudgers, wrong iudgements.

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1630.  Lennard, trans. Charron’s Wisd. (1658), 15. The eares … the Receivers and Judgers of sounds.

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1859.  Tennyson, Enid, 1282. That … which a wanton fool, Or hasty judger would have called her guilt.

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