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prejuˈdicious, a. Now rare.|prɛdʒ-| [f. L. præjūdici-um prejudice n. + -ous; so OF. prejudicieux (1371 in Godef.); see judicious.] 1. Injurious; = prejudicial a.1 1.
1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 225/1 Yet doeth Gods will stande for a law, & what he establisheth amongst vs, neither may nor can be preiuditious to him. a1638Mede Wks. (1672) 48 This was exceedingly prejudicious to the Jews. 1663Gerbier Counsel 100 The entrance..is not so proper in the middle..; But if there be a constraint, which is most prejudicious to a Building, the entrance must be set as much towards the end as possible. 1731S. Hales Stat. Ess. I. 325 [It] would turn rancid and prejudicious to the plant. 1899[implied in prejudiciously]. †2. Full of prejudice; = prejudiced. Obs. rare.
1599Broughton's Let. xiii. 44 Let him not bee paradoxically preiudicious. 1615A. Stafford Heav. Dogge To Rdr., Either his head, his body or his taile will please thee, if modest thou art, and not prejudicious. Hence prejuˈdiciously adv. rare.
1899Harper's Mag. Feb. 473 Why does the North seem to count for so little—and that little prejudiciously? |