verdict

From Middle English verdit, from Anglo-Norman verdit (> Medieval Latin veredictum), from veir (“true”) + dit (“saying”); possibly a calque of a Germanic term such as Old English sōþword, sōþsprǣċ, sōþspell, sōþsagu, or sōþcwide, all meaning "true story, statement of truth, account, history". Doublet of veredictum.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɜː.dɪkt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɝ.dɪkt/
• IPA^(key): (obsolete) /ˈvɜɹ.dɪt/

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verdict (plural verdicts)

1. (law) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.

   The jury returned a “not guilty” verdict.

   • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

     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.

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger’s history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 124:

     When his body was retrieved, it was apparent that he had not raised his hands to cover his face. Had he suffered some sort of fit or seizure? The coroner’s verdict was accidental death.

   • 2020 April 20, Ariane de Vogue, “Supreme Court says unanimous jury verdicts required in state criminal trials for serious offenses”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The Supreme Court said Monday that unanimous jury verdicts are required in state criminal trials for serious offenses, handing a victory to criminal defendants including petitioner Evangelisto Ramos, who was convicted of murder in Louisiana on a 10-2 vote. […] “We took this case to decide whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial – as incorporated against the States by way of the Fourteenth Amendment – requires a unanimous verdict to convict a defendant of a serious offense,” Gorsuch wrote.

2. An opinion or judgement.

   a “not out” verdict from the umpire

• “verdict”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “verdict”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ.dikt/

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verdict m (plural verdicts)

1. verdict

• “verdict”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

verdict (plural verdicts)

1. alternative form of verdit

verdict oblique singular, m (oblique plural verdicz or verdictz, nominative singular verdicz or verdictz, nominative plural verdict)

1. alternative form of verdit

Borrowed from French verdict.

verdict n (plural verdicte)

1. verdict