Adjudicate \Ad*ju"di*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adjudicated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Adjudicating}] [L. adjudicatus, p. p. of adjudicare. See {Adjudge}.] To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.
Adjudicate \Ad*ju"di*cate\, v. i. To come to a judicial decision; as, the court adjudicated upon the case.
Congressional committees have no power to adjudicate the guilt or innocence of anyone, only to gather information in furtherance of Congress's oversight and legislative functions.
Corporations, and even individuals, can now rent a judge to adjudicate their differences without ever entering the courthouse.
"Absent a VRA or MSA, we have to do whatever we need to adjudicate through the courts," says Thomas Usher, president of USX Corp.'s U.S. Steel Group.
But Mr. Merritt cautions: "These things are very difficult to adjudicate."
As progressive thinkers, perhaps, Milton Keynes residents could better adjudicate between the competing claims of the political parties to have found the true path to Britain's future. Unfortunately, it appears not.