adjudge

To declare to be.

To deem or determine to be.

City felt they were victims of an injustice after 16 minutes when Silva's free-kick floated straight in, but French official Stephane Lannoy adjudged that Joleon Lescott had fouled keeper Jorg Butt.

To award judicially; to assign.

19th c., James Russell Lowell, The Heritage What doth the poor man's son inherit? Wishes o'erjoyed with humble things, A rank adjudged by toil-won merit, Content that from employment springs

To sentence; to condemn.

on failure of payment of the fines adjudged against them […] for which he shall be so adjudged to imprisonment

no man ought to be adjudged to death, but by the Laws established in this your Realm