| 词组 | judicial, judicious |
| 释义 | judicial, judicious These two adjectives are close etymological relatives whose meanings have shown a tendency to overlap ever since judicious entered the language in the late 16th century (judicial is an older word, first recorded in a work written before 1382). The distinction between their principal senses remains clear, however: judicial has to do primarily with judges and the law (as in "the judicial branch of the government"), while judicious relates to sound judgment of a general kind (as in "a fair and judicious critic"). Judicious was also once used in a sense synonymous with judicial, but that use was last attested in 1632 and is now obsolete. Use of judicial as a synonym of judicious, which first occurred in 1581, has also been labeled obsolete, but a review of recent evidence shows that label to be mistaken: • ... is not only urbane, but judicial; not only noble, but edifying —Sir James Bryce, Studies in History and Jurisprudence, 1901 • ... made an evident effort to be judicial and fair minded —John C. McCloskey, Philological Quarterly, January 1946 • One likes one's academicians objective, critical and judicial —Times Literary Supp., 14 Nov. 1968 • ... requires the judicial appraisal of other people's management —Franklin D. Roosevelt, 12 Mar. 1935, in Donald Day, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Own Story, 1951 This sense of judicial is considered erroneous by usage commentators. As the above quotations show, it occurs in standard, even academic, contexts, but it is not common. Most writers will choose judicious in its place. |
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