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Have a closed mind
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prejudge
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Word definitions for prejudge in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from French préjuger (16c.), equivalent to Latin praejudicare "to judge beforehand;" see pre- + judge (v.). Related: Prejudged ; prejudging ; prejudgment .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. judge beforehand, especially without sufficient evidence
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prejudge \Pre*judge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prejudged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Prejudging .] [Pref. pre + judge: cf. F. pr['e]juger. Cf. Prejudicate , Prejudice .] To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I'm not going to prejudge those decisions. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All of these ideas can be prejudged for the correct answers, which can then be very quickly matched against each entry. ▪ Cohen said that he did not wish ...
Usage examples of prejudge.
If we prejudge a person on any of these bases, and most or all of us do, we are prejudiced.
Steve Stanley was yet another example of the strange results you obtained when you ceased to prejudge a player by his appearance, and his less meaningful statistics, and simply looked at what he had accomplished according to his meaningful stats.
It was growing late, and Jeffreys was eager to be done with this prejudged affair, that he might dine in peace.
From a secure vantage in a seacoast town Lance challenged a trial by his peers, and, as an already prejudged man escaping from his executioners, obtained a change of venue.
The light of their faces they show him -- his case is Prejudged and his verdict already secured.
Monk cut across him, his voice sharp with anger at Runcorn for prejudging him, at Dalgarno for being greedy, dishonest and cruel, and at Katrina for loving so passionately a man unworthy of her, or of anyone.
But they were rational beings and the rational thing to do was obviously to go and see the place before prejudging it.
But they were rational beings and the rational thing to do was obviously to go and see the place before prejudging it.