overjudge

present singular third person overjudges · participle present overjudging · participle past overjudged · past overjudged

1. transitiveTo judge excessively or too harshly.

   The most ordinary temptation of the cultivated mind is to desire to criticize too much, to overjudge, to criticize even that of which he knows nothing.

   1914, David Josiah Brewer, Crowned Masterpieces of Eloquence Representing the Advance of Civilization

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   It seems incongruous for the plaintiff to claim that the defendant should overjudge him in a matter in which he assumed to judge and to do all that he required or supposed necessary to be done in the premises, and that the defendant should be responsible for the inadequacy of what the plaintiff adjudged and did.

   1877, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont

   People with BPD are sometimes too interpersonally sensitive, and they overjudge situations, such as feeling that no one loves them or that people are talking about them.

   2014, Blaise A Aguirre, Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents, 2nd Edition

plural overjudges

1. A supreme or superior judge.

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   But without importing into the case any extravagant conclusions, no doubt need be entertained that the overjudge at Strassburg wielded an immense influence; although, looking at the whole spirit of the Ordinances before us, it is hardly conceivable that his judicial decisions were promulgated on his own sole and undivided authority.

   1883, Robert Freke Gould, The history of freemasonry