Crossword clues for prejudge
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 anticipation; to condemn beforehand.
The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case,
by calling the united sense of both houses of
Parliament`` a universal clamor.''
--Swift.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. To form a judgement in advance.
WordNet
v. judge beforehand, especially without sufficient evidence
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.