prejudicate

• præjudicate (archaic)

Borrowed from Latin praeiūdicātus, past participle of praeiūdicō (“pre-judge”). Doublet of prejudge.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹiːˈdʒuːdɪkət/

prejudicate (comparative more prejudicate, superlative most prejudicate)

1. (obsolete) Prejudiced, biased. [16th-19th c.]
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.7:

     their works will be embraced by most that understand them, and their reasons enforce belief even from prejudicate Readers.

2. Preconceived (of an opinion, idea etc.); formed before the event. [from 16th c.]
   • Jeremy Taylor

     ignorance and prejudicate opinions

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹiːˈdʒuːdɪkeɪt/

prejudicate (third-person singular simple present prejudicates, present participle prejudicating, simple past and past participle prejudicated)

1. (transitive, intransitive, now rare) To determine beforehand, especially rashly; to prejudge. [from 16th c.]
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, First Folio 1623:

     the Florentine will moue vs / For speedie ayde: wherein our deerest friend / Preiudicates the businesse, and would seeme / To haue vs make deniall.