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Prejudice
King James Dictionary
or PREJ'UDICE, n. L. prejudicium proe and judico.
1. Prejudgment an opinion or decision of mind, formed without due examination of the facts or arguments which are necessary to a just and impartial determination. It is used in a good or bad sense. Innumerable are the prejudices of education we are accustomed to believe what we are taught, and to receive opinions from others without examining the grounds by which they can be supported. A man has strong prejudices in favor of his country or his party, or the church in which he has been educated and often our prejudices are unreasonable. A judge should disabuse himself of prejudice in favor of either party in a suit.
My comfort is that their manifest prejudice to my cause will render their judgment of less authority.
2. A previous bent or bias of mind for or against any person or thing prepossession.
There is an unaccountable prejudice to projectors of all kinds.
3. Mischief hurt damage injury. Violent factions are a prejudice to the authority of the sovereign.
How plain this abuse is, and what prejudice it does to the understanding of the sacred Scriptures.
This is a sense of the word too well established to be condemned.
PREJ'UDICE, To prepossess with unexamined opinions, or opinions formed without due knowledge of the facts and circumstances attending the question to bias the mind by hasty and incorrect notions, and give it an unreasonable bent to one side or other of a cause.
Suffer not any beloved study to prejudice your mind so far as to despise all other learning.
1. To obstruct or injure by prejudices, or an undue previous bias of the mind or to hurt to damage to diminish to impair in a very general sense. The advocate who attempts to prove too much, may prejudice his cause.
I am not to prejudice the cause of my fellow poets, though I abandon my own defense.
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Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Prejudice'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/p/prejudice.html.
