Ju-dĭ'cial, a.

(ju-dĭsh'al), a. [Lat. jū-diciālis, from jū-dicium, judgment; Pr., Sp., & Pg. judicial, It. giudiciale, giudiziale, O. Fr. judiciel.]

1. Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge thereof; as, judicial power; a judicial mind.
2. Practiced or employed in the administration of justice; as, judicial proceedings.
3. Proceeding from a court of justice; as, a judicial determination; ordered by a court; as, a judicial sale.
4. Positive, or established by statute.

It was not a moral, but a judicial, law, and so was abrogated; ... which law the ministry of Christ came not to deal with. Milton.

5. Inflicted, as a penalty or in judgment; as, judicial hardness of heart; a judicial punishment.
6. Judicious. [Obs.]

Her brains a quiver of jests, and she does dart them abroad with that sweet, loose, and judicial action. B. Jonson.