Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AD-JU-DI-CA'TION, n.

1. The act of adjudging; the act or process of trying and determining judicially; as, a ship was taken and sent into port for adjudication.
2. A judicial sentence; judgment or decision of a court. Whose families were parties to some of the former adjudications. – Blackstone.
3. In Scots law, an action by which a creditor attaches the heritable estate of his debtor, or his debtor's heir, in payment or security of his debt; or an action by which the holder of a heritable right, laboring under a defect in point of form, may supply that defect. – Encyc.