Word Meanings - PREJUDICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of prejudicating, or of judging without due examination of facts and evidence; prejudgment. A preliminary inquiry and determination about something which belongs to a matter in dispute. A previous treatment and decision of a point; a

Additional info about word: PREJUDICATION

1. The act of prejudicating, or of judging without due examination of facts and evidence; prejudgment. A preliminary inquiry and determination about something which belongs to a matter in dispute. A previous treatment and decision of a point; a precedent.

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• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• JUDGMENT
  The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining
• PREJUDICATIVE
  Forming a judgment without due examination; prejudging. Dr. H. More.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• PREVIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• POINTAL
  The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
• POINTED
  1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
• PREJUDICATE
  1. Formed before due examination. "Ignorance and prejudicate opinions." Jer. Taylor. 2. Biased by opinions formed prematurely; prejudiced. "Prejudicate readers." Sir T. Browne.
• EVIDENCER
  One whi gives evidence.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• POINT ALPHABET
  An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.
• POINTSMAN
  A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
• JUDGER
  One who judges. Sir K. Digby.
• DISPUTE
  To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle. (more info) from L. disputare, disputatum; dis- + putare to clean; hence, fig.,
• PREJUDICATION
  1. The act of prejudicating, or of judging without due examination of facts and evidence; prejudgment. A preliminary inquiry and determination about something which belongs to a matter in dispute. A previous treatment and decision of a point; a
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• PREJUDGE
  To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a
• FOREJUDGER
  A judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• PREEXAMINATION
  Previous examination.
• TROIS POINT
  The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• SELF-DETERMINATION
  Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.