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forejudgement|fɔəˈdʒʌdʒmənt|
Also 6 for-.
[f. fore prefix + judgement: cf. prec.]
1. Judgement determined or formed beforehand.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Mark Pref. 3 a, It is not my part to make any ones title either better or worse with my fore-iudgment. 1591Spenser Muiopotmos 320 All the Gods..Did surely deeme the victorie his due: But seldome seene, forejudgment proveth true. 1862Seward in Sat. Rev. (1863) 404 The only foreign nation steadily contributing in every indirect way possible to verify its forejudgment.
†2. A judgement previously pronounced; a judicial precedent. Obs.
1599T. Blundeville Art Logic iv. iii. 104 What call you Foreiudgementes or Ruled Cases? They bee iudgementes or sentences heretofore pronounced, whereby Iudges take example to giue like iudgement in like cases. |