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Definition of judicial : 1. Belonging to the judiciary, as distinguished from legislative, administrative, or executive. See Executive.
2. Fitted or apt for judging or deciding; as, a judicial mind.
3. Judicious.
4. Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proceedings; a judicial sale.

Synonyms:

critical, juridic, juridical, discriminative, discriminatory

legal, administerial, official, magisterial

impartial, proper, authorized, juristic, judiciary, pontifical, fair, constitutional, permissible, administrative, legitimate, lawful, legislative, authoritative, statutory, right, licit, sanctionable, legalistic, equitable, defensible, principled, judgelike

jurisdictional, adjudicate, jurisprudent

Usage examples:

• Then, feeling the curious, judicial eyes of Mary upon him, he abruptly changed the subject. - "Riders of the Silences", Max Brand.
• That night came a man who talked low to the mayor, and he, who ordinarily wore a grave and judicial air, suddenly had eyes as bright as those of a youth who sees the coming of his bride. - "A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees", Edwin Asa Dix.
• We can see to it that our attitude is the judicial one and that our minds are so fixed upon the truth and upon the whole truth that there is no room for prejudice or for passion. - "Morals in Trade and Commerce", Frank B. Anderson.