verdit

See also: verdît

English

Noun

verdit (plural verdits)

Obsolete form of verdict.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for verdit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

divert

French

Verb

verdit

third-person singular present indicative of verdir
third-person singular past historic of verdir

Middle English

Alternative forms

verdite, verdyt, veirdit, voirdit, veyrdit, verdict, verdyth

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French verdit, veirdit, from Vulgar Latin veredictum.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈvɛrdit/, /ˈvɛrdikt/, /ˈvɛi̯rdit/

Noun

verdit (plural verdites)

A verdict; a judgement or ruling (especially legal).
- 1382, Chaucer, “v. 525”, in Parlement of Foules‎^{[The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer]}:
  I juge, of every folk men shal oon calle / To seyn the verdit for you foules alle.
(rare) A position or stance on an issue undergoing arbitration.

Descendants

English: verdict (← verdict)
Scots: verdict

References

“verdit (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-3.

Old French

Alternative forms

verdict, veirdit, voirdit

Noun

verdit m (oblique plural verdiz or verditz, nominative singular verdiz or verditz, nominative plural verdit)

(law) verdict

Descendants

English: verdict (borrowed)

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