Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To judge beforehand without adequate examination or evidence; prejudge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof; prejudge.
- See
forjudge .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof; to prejudge.
- transitive verb (O. Eng. Law) To expel from court for some offense or misconduct, as an attorney or officer; to deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic To
prejudge . - verb Alternative form of
forjudge .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Supreme Court envisioned, for me to try to forejudge -- prejudge what the outcome of all that will be.
Press Briefing By Jake Siewart ITY National Archives 2000
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When matters get to such lengths, the natural inference is that both sides have strained the cords beyond their bearing, that a middle course would be found the best, until experience shall have decided on the right way; or, which is not to be expected, because it is denied to mortals, until there shall be some infallible rule by which to forejudge events.
Life and Times of Washington Schroeder, J. F. 1903
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If it were possible to forejudge the conversation of the Damned on the advent of a new soul in their abode, I should say that they would speak as Gunga Dass did to me throughout that long afternoon.
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900
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If it were possible to forejudge the conversation of the
Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900
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When matters get to such lengths, the natural inference is that both sides have strained the cords beyond their bearing, that a middle course would be found the best, until experience shall have decided on the right way; or, which is not to be expected, because it is denied to mortals, until there shall be some infallible rule by which to forejudge events.
Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched John Frederick Schroeder 1852
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Providence, taken from those false rates and grounds, by which men generally forejudge of the issue or event of actions.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823
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Upon which account also man's unfitness to judge of the proceedings of Providence shall be now made out to us, by considering those false rules and grounds by which men generally forejudge of the issue and event of actions: as,
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823
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When matters get to such lengths, the natural inference is that both sides have strained the cords beyond their bearing, that a middle course would be found the best until experience shall have decided on the right way; or, which is not to be expected, because it is denied to mortals, until there shall be some infallible rule by which to forejudge events.
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Pharisees, and we in the haste of a precipitant zeal shall make no distinction, but resolve to stop their mouths, because we fear they come with new and dangerous opinions, as we commonly forejudge them ere we understand them; no less than woe to us, while, thinking thus to defend the Gospel, we are found the persecutors.
Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England John Milton 1641
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God hath fitted for the special use of these times with eminent and ample gifts, and those perhaps neither among the priests nor among the Pharisees, and we in the haste of a precipitant zeal shall make no distinction, but resolve to stop their mouths, because we fear they come with new and dangerous opinions, as we commonly forejudge them ere we understand them; no less than woe to us, while, thinking thus to defend the Gospel, we are found the persecutors.
Areopagitica 2007
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