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S: (n) judge, justice, jurist (a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice)

S: (n) alcalde (a mayor or chief magistrate of a Spanish town)
S: (n) chief justice (the judge who presides over a supreme court)
S: (n) Daniel (a wise and upright judge) "a Daniel come to judgment" -- Shakespeare
S: (n) doge (formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa)
S: (n) justiciar, justiciary (formerly a high judicial officer)
S: (n) magistrate (a lay judge or civil authority who administers the law (especially one who conducts a court dealing with minor offenses))
S: (n) ordinary (a judge of a probate court)
S: (n) praetor, pretor (an annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic)
S: (n) qadi (an Islamic judge)
S: (n) recorder (a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs)
S: (n) trial judge (a judge in a trial court)
S: (n) trier (one (as a judge) who examines and settles a case)
S: (n) Samson ((Old Testament) a judge of Israel who performed herculean feats of strength against the Philistines until he was betrayed to them by his mistress Delilah)

W: (v) try [Related to: trier] (put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of) "The football star was tried for the murder of his wife"; "The judge tried both father and son in separate trials"

W: (v) try [Related to: trier] (examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process) "The jury had heard all the evidence"; "The case will be tried in California"