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Prejudication   Listen
noun
Prejudication  n.  
1.
The act of prejudicating, or of judging without due examination of facts and evidence; prejudgment.
2.
(Rom. Law)
(a)
A preliminary inquiry and determination about something which belongs to a matter in dispute.
(b)
A previous treatment and decision of a point; a precedent.





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"Prejudication" Quotes from Famous Books



... informed the court that the Welshman assured me, Captain Oakum and Doctor Mackshane would toss upon billows of burning brimstone in hell for their barbarity. The clerk observed, that there was an evident prejudication, which confirmed the former suspicion of a conspiracy against the life of Captain Oakum; for, because, how could Morgan so positively pronounce that the captain and surgeon would d—n'd, unless he had intention to make away with them before they ...
— The Adventures of Roderick Random • Tobias Smollett


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