| JA | judgment analysis; juvenile atrophy; juxta-articular |
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| RADS | reactive airways dysfunction syndrome; retrospective assessment of drug safety |
| TOJ | temporal order judgment |
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| judgment | 1. The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence. "I oughte deme, of skilful jugement, That in the salte sea my wife is deed." (Chaucer) 2. The power or faculty of performing such operations (see 1); especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; good sense; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment. "He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment." (Ps. Lxxii. 2) "Hernia. I would my father look'd but with my eyes. Theseus. Rather your eyes must with his judgment look." (Shak) 3. The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision. "She in my judgment was as fair as you." (Shak) "Who first his judgment asked, and then a place." (Pope) 4. The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge; the mandate or sentence of God as the judge of all. "In judgments between rich and poor, consider not what the poor man needs, but what is his own." (Jer. Taylor) "Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment." (Shak) 5. <philosophy> That act of the mind by which two notions or ideas which are apprehended as distinct are compared for the purpose of ascertaining their agreement or disagreement. See 1. The comparison may be threefold: (1) Of individual objects forming a concept. (2) Of concepts giving what is technically called a judgment. (3) Of two judgments giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as analytic, synthetic, and identical. That power or faculty by which knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2. "A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another." (Sir W. Hamilton) "The power by which we are enabled to perceive what is true or false, probable or improbable, is called by logicians the faculty of judgment." (Stewart) 6. A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment. "Judgments are prepared for scorners." . "This judgment of the heavens that makes us tremble." 7. The final award; the last sentence. Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining combinations; as, judgment hour; judgment throne. Judgment day, a proceeding by a judgment creditor against a judgment debtor upon an unsatisfied judgment. Arrest of judgment. See Arrest, Judgment of God, a term formerly applied to extraordinary trials of secret crimes, as by arms and single combat, by ordeal, etc.; it being imagined that God would work miracles to vindicate innocence. See Ordeal. Synonym: Discernment, decision, determination, award, estimate, criticism, taste, discrimination, penetration, sagacity, intelligence, understanding. See Taste. Origin: OE. Jugement, F. Jugement, LL. Judicamentum, fr. L. Judicare. See Judge. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| moral | 1. Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to rules. "Keep at the least within the compass of moral actions, which have in them vice or virtue." (Hooker) "Mankind is broken loose from moral bands." (Dryden) "She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness." (Hawthorne) 2. Conformed to accepted rules of right; acting in conformity with such rules; virtuous; just; as, a moral man. Used sometimes in distinction from religious; as, a moral rather than a religious life. "The wiser and more moral part of mankind." (Sir M. Hale) 3. Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of right; subject to the law of duty. "A moral agent is a being capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a moral sense." (J. Edwards) 4. Acting upon or through one's moral nature or sense of right, or suited to act in such a manner; as, a moral arguments; moral considerations. Sometimes opposed to material and physical; as, moral pressure or support. 5. Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral certainty. 6. Serving to teach or convey a moral; as, a moral lesson; moral tales. Moral agent, a being who is capable of acting with reference to right and wrong. Moral certainty, a very high degree or probability, although not demonstrable as a certainty; a probability of so high a degree that it can be confidently acted upon in the affairs of life; as, there is a moral certainty of his guilt. Moral insanity, insanity, so called, of the moral system; badness alleged to be irresponsible. Moral philosophy, the science of duty; the science which treats of the nature and condition of man as a moral being, of the duties which result from his moral relations, and the reasons on which they are founded. Moral play, an allegorical play; a morality. Moral sense, the power of moral judgment and feeling; the capacity to perceive what is right or wrong in moral conduct, and to approve or disapprove, independently of education or the knowledge of any positive rule or law. Moral theology, theology applied to morals; practical theology; casuistry. Origin: F, fr. It. Moralis, fr. Mos, moris, manner, custom, habit, way of life, conduct. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| moral ataxia | Inconstancy of ideas and of conscious intent, as a manifestation of hysteria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| moral treatment | A type of milieu therapy utilised in the 19th century, emphasizing religious doctrine and benevolent guidance in activities of daily living; as such it was a form of psychotherapy as opposed to somatic treatment's such as bloodletting and purging. (05 Mar 2000) |
| retrospective | Relating to retrospection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| retrospective falsification | Unconscious distortion of past experience to conform to present psychological needs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| retrospective studies | Studies used to test aetiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons. (12 Dec 1998) |
| retrospective study | <epidemiology> A study in which people are enrolled and then have their history of risks, infections or disease measured. (05 Dec 1998) |
Synonyms : Judgment, Retrospective Moral, Judgments, Retrospective Moral, Moral Judgments, Retrospective, Retrospective Moral Judgments
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