Verdict

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈvɝ.dɪkt/

Origin

Old French verdit, from veir ("true") + dit ("saying").

Full definition of verdict

Noun

1. (legal) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.
   a "not guilty" verdict
• 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate Chapter Prologue, Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:...it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
2. An opinion or judgement.
   a "not out" verdict of the umpire

Derived terms

• verdictive