verdit
See also: verdît
English
Noun
verdit (plural verdits)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
French
Verb
verdit
- third-person singular present indicative of verdir
- third-person singular past historic of verdir
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French verdit, veirdit, from Vulgar Latin veredictum.
Pronunciation
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.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (rare) A position or stance on an issue undergoing arbitration.
Descendants
References
- “verdit (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-3.
Old French
Alternative forms
Noun
verdit oblique singular, m (oblique plural verdiz or verditz, nominative singular verdiz or verditz, nominative plural verdit)
Descendants
- → English: verdict
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