Word Meanings - FAIR-MINDED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Unprejudiced; just; judicial; honest. -- Fair"*mind`ed*ness, n.

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• JUDICIAL
  1. Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proceedings; a judicial sale. "Judicial massacres."
• HONESTY
  Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
• HONESTATION
  The act of honesting; grace; adornment. W. Montagu.
• HONEST
  1. Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming. Chaucer. Belong what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching! Shak. 2. Characterized by integrity or fairness and straightas, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain;
• JUDICIALLY
  In a judicial capacity or judicial manner. "The Lords . . . sitting judicially." Macaulay.
• HONESTETEE
  Honesty; honorableness. Chaucer.
• UNPREJUDICED
  1. Not prejudiced; free from undue bias or prepossession; not preoccupied by opinion; impartial; as, an unprejudiced mind; an unprejudiced judge. 2. Not warped or biased by prejudice; as, an unprejudiced judgment. -- Un*prej"u*diced*ness, n. V.
• HONESTLY
  1. Honorably; becomingly; decently. Chaucer. 2. In an honest manner; as, a contract honestly made; to live honestly; to speak honestly. Shak. To come honestly by. To get honestly. A circumlocution for to inherit; as, to come honestly by a
• DISHONESTY
  1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
• UNHONEST
  Dishonest; dishonorable. Ascham. -- Un*hon"est*ly, adv. Udall.
• DEHONESTATE
  To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see
• INJUDICIAL
  Not according to the forms of law; not judicial.
• UNDERHONEST
  Not entirely honest. "We think him overproud and underhonest." Shak.
• DEHONESTATION
  A dishonoring; disgracing. Gauden.
• EXTRAJUDICIAL CONVEYANCE
  A conveyance, as by deed, effected by the act of the parties and not involving, as in the fine and recovery, judicial proceedings.
• EXTRAJUDICIAL
  Out of or beyond the proper authority of a court or judge; beyond jurisdiction; not legally required. "An extrajudicial opinion." Hallam. -- Ex`tra*ju*di"cial*ly, adv.
• PREJUDICIAL
  1. Biased, possessed, or blinded by prejudices; as, to look with a prejudicial eye. Holyday. 2. Tending to obstruct or impair; hurtful; injurious; disadvantageous; detrimental. Hooker. His going away . . . was most prejudicial and most ruinous
• DISHONESTLY
  In a dishonest manner.
• DISHONEST
  1. Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd. Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. Pope. Speak no foul or dishonest words before them . Sir T. North. 2. Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured. Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears,