(verb) : ab-jūdĭco, āvi, ātum, 1
* To deprive one of a thing by judicial sentence, to declare that it does not belong to one, to abjudicate, lit. and trop. (opp. adjudico); constr. with aliquid or aliquem ab aliquo, or alicui: abjudicata a me modo est Palaestra,Plaut. Rud. 5, 1, 3; 4, 3, 100; id. As. 3, 3, 17: (Rullus) judicabit Alexandream regis esse, a populo Romano abjudicabit,Cic. Agr. 2, 16; cf.: rationem veritatis, integritatis... ab hoc ordine abjudicari,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 2, § 4: sibi libertatem,id. Caecin. 34 (in Cic. de Or. 2, 24, 102, many since Budaeus, acc. to the MSS., read abdĭco; so B. and K.).