Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.