verdict

Etymology

From Middle English verdit, from Old French verdit, from veir (“true”) + dit (“saying”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɝ.dɪkt/

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Noun

verdict (plural verdicts)

1. (law) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.

   The jury returned a "not guilty" verdict.

   • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, OCLC 16832619:

     Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

2. An opinion or judgement.

   a "not out" verdict from the umpire

Further reading

• verdict in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• verdict in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ.dikt/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

verdict m (plural verdicts)

1. verdict

Noun

verdict

1. Alternative form of verdit

Noun

verdict m (oblique plural verdicz or verdictz, nominative singular verdicz or verdictz, nominative plural verdict)

1. Alternative form of verdit