prejudicate
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /pɹiːˈdʒuːdɪkət/
prejudicate
- (obsolete) Prejudiced, biased. [16th-19th c.]
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.7:
- their works will be embraced by most that understand them, and their reasons enforce belief even from prejudicate Readers.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.7:
- Preconceived (of an opinion, idea etc.); formed before the event. [from 16th c.]
- ignorance and prejudicate opinions
- (British) IPA: /pɹiːˈdʒuːdɪkeɪt/
prejudicate (prejudicates, present participle prejudicating; past and past participle prejudicated)
- (ambitransitive, now rare) To determine beforehand, especially rashly; to prejudge. [from 16th c.]
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, First Folio 1623:
- the Florentine will moue vs / For speedie ayde: wherein our deerest friend / Preiudicates the businesse, and would seeme / To haue vs make deniall.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, First Folio 1623:
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