- Is careful
- Is wary
- Keeps an eye open for unsynchronised timepieces
- The act of deflouring; as, the defloration of a
virgin.
- That which is chosen as the flower or choicest part;
careful culling or selection.
- The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that
careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing
unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose;
thrift; --- opposed to extravagance.
- A sparing use; sparingness; as, frugality of praise.
- Edict
- 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.
- The power or faculty of performing such operations
(see 1); esp., when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding
rightly, justly, or wisely; good sense; as, a man of judgment; a
politician without judgment.
- The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a
decision.
- 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.
- 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.