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Show PRE 3. T P put before anothe thing: as, b prefixed an advertifement to bis book PrEFI'X. n. [, [prafixum, Latin.] Som particle put before a word, to vary it fignification Pre‘ecNaNTLY. adv PrEFI'X10N #. / [ prefixion French from prefix.] Thealt of prefixing. Di& o PrREFO'RM. . a. [pre and form. To form beforehand Not in ufe If you confider the true caufe ‘Why all thefe things change from their ordinanc Their natures and preformed faculties from the original or etymo [from pregnant. 1. Fruoitfully z. Fully; plainly; clearly South To monftrous quality; why you fhall find ‘That heav'n made them inftruments of fea Pre‘onvancy. n. /. [from pregnant. 1. The ftate of being with young the realm, and that it tended to the difinherifon o Bacon's Henry VII the line of York The child was ftrong and able, though bor Unto fome monftrous ftate. Shakefp. Fulius Cafar breaf in encompafle wit ribs an in the eighth month, which the phyficians do pre th Judge belly left free, for refpiration ; and in females, fo that extraordinary extenfion in the time of thei _ Pregnancy Ray on the Creation Th H was fent to fchool, where his pregnanc was advantaged by more than paternal care and in PRE'GNANT. adj. [pregnant, French pregnans, Latin. 1. Teeming ; breeding Tho Dove-like fat'ft brooding on the vaft abyfs And mad'ft it pregnant Milton His town, as fame reports, was built of ol By Danae, pregnant with almighty gold Dryden Through either ocean, foolifh man That pregnant word fent forth again Might to a world extend each atom there For every drop call forth a fea, a heav'n for'ev'r ftar 2. Fruitful; fertile; impregnating lefs to be preHammond left a greate caufe fhould beinjured and prejudged thereby. Ayliffe Lat. To determin difadvantage beforehan This rule of cafting away all our former prejudicate opinions, is not propofed to any of us to b practifed at once as fubjets or chriftians, bu merely as philofophers Watts Thei work underftan wil them b an from prejudicate readers embrace thei b reafon Evident hand withou clear full obfolete fenfe [ prejudice examination againft A Th This granted, as it is a moft pregrant and unforc'd pofition, who ftands fo eminent in the degree of this fortune as Caffio, a knave very voluble bu kin himfel o fpoke fi quentl fr th p m itfelf that was given € y comfor is, that their ma prejudice t caufe will render their judgment of lefs autho a he was in his prej rity 5. Eafy to produce any thing made tame to fortune's blows ‘Who by the art of known and feeling forrows Am pregnant to good pity Shakefps King Lear Free M kind matte Obfolete hat no"voice moit pregnant and vouchfafed car but"to you ow Shake[peare Suffer not any beloved ftudy to prejudice you mind, fo far as to defpife all other learning, Wa 2 my pains 2 Mifchief detriment Addifin hurt injury This fenfe is only accidental or confequential ; a4 bad thing being called prejudice, only becaule prejudice is commonly a bad thing, aad 1s not derive To obftruét or injure by prejudicespre vioufly raifed Companies of learned men, be they neverf great and reverend, are to yield unto reafon; th weight whereof is no whit prejudiced by the fimplicity of his perfon, which doth allege it Huk Neither muft his example, done without th book, prejudice that which is well appointed in th Whitgif book I am not to prejudice the caufe of my fellow poets, though I abandon my own de.fenfe..Drydm 3. To injure; t impair; to b fenfe, as in th perly extende no relatio FEurt; to diminifh; t detrimental to. Thi noun, is often intproto meanings that hai to the original fenfe; Yvho can read with patience of an ingredien that prejudices a medicine The ftrength of that law is fuch, that no particular nation can lawfully prejudice the fame b any their feveral laws and ordinances, more thm:h: man by his private refolutions, the law of the S ' w& li et h w e e c m o whol wealt The Danube refcu'd, and the empire fav'd Say, is the majefty of vlerfe 1'§:z‘iev'fi And would i prejudice thy fofter vein o ? g B g a n L u p ' th é s To fin To this is added a vinous bitter, wannerlp"fil‘ \v tr a; th t m i g e it i o n compofitio i J m na p e g n i a a d ficn r:q lil a ca on th f a o r g a efu bitter of f a fu c u t w c m o th itio i L{sza{l Dl[f}"'f ; ight not prejudic(se it PrEjUDI'CIAL from prejudice. 1. Obftruéte adj [;r{;udmab e, by means of o pofleflions i r v fa r n e *Ti o tion to look upon the action 2 Helyday ]Jzu_f:uf."ciu{ eye !)T-V{],L'l‘: Thete is an unaccountable prejudice to projector of all kinds, for which reafon, when I #ik o practifing to fly, filly people think me an owl fo *Twere pregnant, they thould fquare between them felves Shakefpeare A moft poor ma i And roofs imperfet prejudic'd the fights ~ Priy, It is ufe mor conduét hinder it fro m doin Half pillars wanted their expected height Fr."pre confidere hi 70 PRE‘JUDICE. w. a. [from the noun 1. To prepoflefs with unexamined opi nions; to fill with prejudices P not properly or b us any prejudice enforce for prepoffeflion in favour of any thin or againft it. It is fometimes ufed wit to before that which the grejudice i Arbuthnot plain ticks 1. Prepofleflion ; judgment formed before table paffive obedience! did I ever imae I fhould become thy votary in fo pregnan a ance A prince of this chara@er will infim&fi;{i{ his example, to fix the unfteadinefs of oy poli t Thef grounds "I 6 mof PRE'JUDICE. #. Judicium, Latin. tue f How plain this abufe is, and what P"J"‘dini; does to the underftanding of the facred {feriptures z. Prejudiced ; prepoflefled by opinions Prejupica'rion. =z /. [from prejudicate. The a& of judging without examination A {Egn of weaknefs in princes, and much to thé BZ'M Judice of their authority and bufinefs Our deareft frien Prejudicates the bufinefs, and would fee To have us make denial Shake[peare Are you, in favour of his perfon, ben Thus to grejudicate the innocent Sandys \1l thefe in their pregnant caufes mixt. Milton Call the floods from high, to ruth amain ‘With pregnant fireams, to fwell the teeming grain Dryden knew not the juft motives and pregnan with which I thought myfelf furnithe King Charles egregious and pregnant inftance how far virfes ingemuity. Woodward's Natural Hift Factions carried too high and too violey flyP‘I_'urt t PrEJU'DICATE. adj. [from the verb. 1. Formed by prejudice; formed befor examination England and France might through thci{m Breed him fome ¢rejudice; fo f o th e S a ? h m m n c t a Peep'd harm 70 PREJU'DICATE. @.a. [ pre andjudico Prior 3. Full of confequence 4 muc Some action ought to be entered Fell wit wafted in giving reckonings Shakefpeare This writer, out of the pregmancy of his invention, hath found out an old way of infinuating th grofleft refle@ions under the appearance of admonitions Swift's Mifcellanie s caufe is not to be defended, or patronize T a m g b p e u i o he pr fe fg He r § a p r g o o h o t O uc The committee of council hath prejudged th whole cafe, by calling the united fenfe of bot houfes of parliament an univerfal clamour. Swvift acutenefs Pregnancy is made a tapfter, and hath his quic Bacon by names, but arguments Judged, or blafted by them 2. Fertility ; fruitfulnefs ; inventive power duftry I hav.e not fpakg one the leaft word PrEGUSTA'TION. 7./. [pre and guflo The att of talting before anLatin. other «. a. [prejuger, Fr 7o PREJUDGE 'I'o determin pre and judico, Latin. any queftion beforehand; generally t condemn beforehand If he ftood upon his own title of the houf of Lancafter, he knew it was condemned in parliament, and przjudged in the common opinion o Th poffefion. In fome of the foflgyp b w l p it o r e e a p e caverea The dignity of this office among the Jews i {o pregnantly fet forth in holy writ, that it is unqueftionable; kings and priefts are mentioned together 1tto lebefs: app pei rhdaps to pranejudice ought pg, y mifchief, Wh}:[: does not imply fome partiality Shakefpeare's Timon More pregnantly than words word: it were therefore be:'g ?:? A thoufand moral paintings I can thew That fhall demonftrate thefe quick blows of fortun In the Hebrew language the noun has its preSixa and he former to fignify fome few relations, a atter to denote the pronouns poffeflive and re Clarke It is a prefix of augmentation to many words i that language Brown's Vulgar Errours P o Contrary; opponte (\:"."hat ohg, {?yllag‘isfis there, in > all this, P'qf}'i::4 f any way to that which we hold 3. Mifchievous hurtful; 10jur trimental. This fenfe is 1mproper PrEjUDICE tl}e ,,"F'" mm'mn% Hi goin awa troops, was mof the king's affairs r e |
