[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That judges; having the function of judging, judicial; spec. Having good judgment, able to judge, judicious, discerning; also, Censorious.
1581. Sidney, Apol. Poetrie (Arb.), 33. The imaginatiue and iudging powre.
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., III. § 225. In so Grave and Judging an Assembly.
1735. Pope, Prol. Sat., 246. Dryden alone escap’d this judging eye.
1856. Miss Winkworth, Tauler, Serm. xi. (1857), 267. Full of judging thoughts of other men who do not observe or approve of their ways.
Hence Judgingly adv., with judgment, judiciously, discerningly; censoriously.
1659. Milton, Civ. Power, Wks. (1851), 309. This work neither his own ministers nor any els can discerningly anough or judgingly perform.
1847–85. D. P. Page’s The. & Pract. Teach. (ed. Payne), 261. One should never judgingly declare … ‘You are a liar.’
