Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PRE-GUST'ANT, a. [L. prægustans.]

Tasting beforehand. – Ed. Rev.

PRE-GUST-A'TION, n. [L. præ and gusto, to taste.]

The act of tasting before another. – Dict.

PRE-HEN'SI-BLE, a.

That may be seized. – Lawrence.

PRE-HEN'SILE, or PRE-HEN'SO-RY, a. [L. prehendo, to take or seize; prehensus.]

Seizing; grasping; adapted to seize or grasp. The tails some monkeys are prehensile. – Nat. Hist. Enc.

PRE-HEN'SION, n.

A taking hold; a seizing; as with the hand or other limb. – Lawrence.

PREHN'ITE, n. [from Prehn, the name of the person who first brought this stone from the Cape of Good Hope.]

A mineral of the silicious kind, of an apple green or greenish gray color. It has been called shorl, emerald, chrysoprase felspath, chrysolite, and zeolite. It has some resemblance to zeolite, but differs from it in several particulars, and therefore considered to be a particular species. – Kirwan. Phrenite is near to stilbite, and is classed by the French with the family of zeolites. It is massive or crystalized, but the form of its crystals can not be determined in consequence of their aggegation. – Cleaveland.

PRE-IN-STRUCT', v.t. [pre and instruct.]

To instruct previously. – More.

PRE-IN-STRUCT'ED, pp.

Previously instructed or directed.

PRE-IN-STRUCT'ING, ppr.

Previously instructing.

PRE-IN-TI-MA'TION, n. [pre and intimation.]

Previous intimation; a suggestion beforehand. – T. Sea.

PRE-JUDGE', v.t. [prejudj'; Fr. prejuger; L. præ and judico, to judge.]

1. To judge in a cause before it is heard, or before the arguments, and facts in the case are fully known. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of parliament universal clamor. – Swift.
2. To judge and determine before the cause is heard; hence sometimes, to condemn beforehand or unheard. – Milton.

PRE-JUDG'ED, pp.

Judged beforehand; determined unheard.

PRE-JUDG'ING, ppr.

Judging or determining without a hearing or before the case is fully understood.

PRE-JUDG'MENT, n.

Judgment in a case without a hearing or full examination. – Knox.

PRE-JU'DI-CA-CY, n.

Prejudice; prepossession. [Not used.] – Blount.

PRE-JU'DI-CATE, a.

1. Formed before due examination. – Watts.
2. Prejudiced; biased by opinions formed prematurely; as, a prejudicate reader. [Little used.] – Brown.

PRE-JU'DI-CATE, v.i.

To form a judgment without due examination of the facts and arguments in the case. – Sidney.

PRE-JU'DI-CATE, v.t. [L. præ, before, and judico, to judge.]

To prejudge; to determine beforehand to disadvantage. Our dearest friend / Prejudicates the business. – Shak.

PRE-JU'DI-CA-TED, pp.

Prejudged.

PRE-JU'DI-CA-TING, ppr.

Prejudging.

PRE-JU-DI-CA'TION, n.

1. The act of judging without due examination of facts and evidence. – Sherwood.
2. In Roman oratory, prejudications were of three kinds; first, precedents or adjudged cases, involving the same points of law; second, previous decisions on the same question between other parties; third, decisions of the same and between the same parties, before tribunals of inferior jurisdiction. – Adams's Lect.

PRE-JU'DI-CA-TIVE, a.

Forming an opinion or judgment without examination. – More.

PREJ'U-DICE, n. [Fr. from L. prejudicium; præ and judico.]

1. Prejudgment; an opinion or decision of mind, formed without due examination of the facts or arguments which are necessary to a just and impartial determination. It is used in a good or bad sense. Innumerable are the prejudices of education; we are accustomed to believe what we are taught, and to receive opinions from others without examining the grounds by which they can be supported. A man has strong prejudices in favor of his country or his party, or the church in which he has been educated; and often our prejudices are unreasonable. A judge should disabuse himself of prejudice in favor of either party in a suit. My comfort is that their manifest prejudice to my cause will render their judgment of less authority. – Dryden.
2. A previous bent or bias of mind for or against any person or thing; prepossession. There is an unaccountable prejudice to projectors of all kinds. – Addison.
3. Mischief; hurt; damage; injury. Violent factions are a prejudice to the authority of the sovereign. How plain this abuse is, and what prejudice it does to the understanding of the sacred Scriptures. – Locke. [This is a sense of the word too well established to be condemned.]

PREJ'U-DICE, v.t.

1. To prepossess with unexamined opinions, or opinions formed without due knowledge of the facts and circumstances attending the question; to bias the mind by hasty and incorrect notions, and give it an unreasonable bent to one side or other of a cause. Suffer not any beloved study to prejudice your mind so far as to despise all other learning. – Watts.
2. To obstruct or injure by prejudices, or an undue previous bias of the mind; or to hurt; to damage; to diminish; to impair; in a very general sense. The advocate who attempts to prove too much, may prejudice his cause. I am not to prejudice the cause of my fellow poets, though I abandon my own defense. – Dryden.

PREJ'U-DICE-ED, pp. [or a.]

Prepossessed by unexamined opinions; biased.