1. (v. t.) Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.

2. (v. t.) That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.

3. (v. t.) Ruin; death.

4. (v. t.) Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision.

5. (v. t.) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.

6. (v. t.) To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death.

7. (v. t.) To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.

8. (v. t.) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.

9. (v. t.) To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.