单词 | prejudication |
释义 | prejudicationn. 1. The action of judging beforehand; a previously formed decision or opinion; prejudgement. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > [noun] > premature judgement forejudgement1548 prejudice1583 prejudication1606 foregone conclusiona1616 1606 B. Barnes Foure Bks. Offices ii. 90 And hence groweth that generall mis-conceit, preiudication, and weakenesse of discretion. 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Preiudication, a iudging before hand. 1617 R. Fenton Treat. Church Rome To Rdr. Come not therefore with prejudication, either of the matter or the person. 1767 G. Lyttelton Hist. Henry II I. 147 A solemn determination, which assigned the precedence to the nephew of the king above his natural son, was a prejudication of the right of succession in favour of the former. 1794 Times 25 Oct. 3/2 The remainder of the Charge is made up of hypothesis, presumption, prejudication, and conjecture. 1849 J. P. Kennedy Mem. W. Wirt (1860) II. xvi. 273 They have come to the examination of this case under a strong prejudication of the guilt of the respondent. 1874 F. H. Bradley Presuppositions Crit. Hist. 15 There is no such thing as a history without a prejudication. 1937 V. Nabokov Despair 201 Not only taking for granted, with strange prejudication, that the dead man could not be I. 1996 Toronto Star (Nexis) 13 Mar. c6 A little knowledge is dangerous, none is even more so, opening the door to acceptance of misinformation and anti-hunting propaganda as factual, which leads to prejudication. ΚΠ 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Prejudication..(Roman Law), a preliminary inquiry and determination about something which belongs to a matter in dispute. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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