Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of prejudicating; prejudgment; a hasty or premature judgment.
- noun In Roman law: A preceding judgment, sentence, or decision; a precedent.
- noun A preliminary inquiry and determination about something that belonged to the matter in dispute.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of prejudicating, or of judging without due examination of facts and evidence; prejudgment.
- noun A preliminary inquiry and determination about something which belongs to a matter in dispute.
- noun A previous treatment and decision of a point; a precedent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
judgment without dueexamination offacts andevidence - noun law A
preliminary inquiry anddetermination about something which belongs to a matter indispute . - noun A previous
treatment anddecision of apoint ; aprecedent .
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I hope this is an eternal prejudication. #abian911
Global Voices in English » Taiwan: Response to Ex-President’s Life Sentence 2009
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The clerk observed, that there was an evident prejudication, which confirmed the former suspicion of a conspiracy against the life of
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Nevertheless, in a certain degree, we are all introduced to our religious studies under this prejudication.
Evidence of Christianity William Paley 1774
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The clerk observed, that there was an evident prejudication, which confirmed the former suspicion of a conspiracy against the life of Captain Oakum; for, because, how could Morgan so positively pronounce that the captain and surgeon would d-- n'd, unless he had intention to make away with them before they could have time to repent?
The Adventures of Roderick Random Tobias George Smollett 1746
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That Lords and Commons fhould have joined to - gether in votes of prejudication — that Minifteni
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It is desirable further to observe, that the only reason why I publish this edition anonymously is because I feel very strongly that, in matters of the kind with which the present essay deals, opinions and arguments should be allowed to produce the exact degree of influence to which as opinions and arguments they are entitled: they should be permitted to stand upon their own intrinsic merits alone, and quite beyond the shadow of that unfair prejudication which cannot but arise so soon as their author's authority, or absence of authority, becomes known.
A Candid Examination of Theism George John Romanes 1871
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