a. colloq. [f. as prec. + -AL.] Characterized by good practical judgment; judicious, discerning; judicial.
1826. J. F. Cooper, Mohicans, xxv. A judgmatical rap on the head stiffened the lying impostor for a time.
1834. W. Maginn, Bob Burke’s Duel, in Blackw. Mag., XXXV. 751. What we call in Ireland a judgmatical sort of man—a word which, I think, might be introduced with advantage into the English vocabulary.
1888. Spectator, 13 Oct., 1411/1. The tone is moderate and judgmatical throughout.
Hence Judgmatically adv., in the manner, or with the air, of a judge.
1814. Col. Hawker, Diary (1893), I. 113. Ably described and judgmatically criticised in almost every newspaper.
1855. Ld. Houghton, in W. Reid, Life (1891), I. xi. 525. Gladstone shakes his head most judgmatically over the notion.
