Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proceedings; a judicial sale.

Fitted or apt for judging or deciding; as, a judicial mind; judicial temperament.

Belonging to the judiciary, as distinguished from legislative, administrative, or executive. See Executive.

one of Kant's three main standpoints, relating primarily to experi­ence-i.e., to what we feel, as opposed to what we know or desire to do. Judicial reason is virtually synonymous with ' Critique' itself, and is con­cerned with questions about the most profound ways in which we experience the world. Finding the source of two examples of such experiences is the task of the third Critique. (Cf. theoretical and practical.)

The branch of government that interprets the laws or says what the laws mean.

one of the three divisions of democratic government, responsible for interpreting laws

Of the judiciary (see below).

Judicious.