▪ I. forejudge, v.
(fɔəˈdʒʌdʒ)
Also 7 forjudge.
[f. fore- prefix + judge v.]
1. trans. To judge or determine beforehand or without a fair trial; to prejudge. Also absol.
| 1561–80 [see the ppl. a. and vbl. n.]. 1647 Clarendon Hist. Reb. iii. §195 If his Majesty might take notice what Bills were passing in either House, and declare His Own opinion, it was to forejudge Their Counsels. 1656 in Burton's Diary (1828) I. 215 We ought not to forejudge the petition. 1860 Ellicott Life Our Lord iv. 174 Pharisees whom Judæa and Jerusalem..had sent forth to forejudge and to condemn. |
† 2. To form a judgement or opinion of beforehand. Also intr. with of. Obs.
| 1603 Sir C. Heydon Jud. Astrol. To Rdr. 7 They rashely foreiudge what I thinke. a 1716 South Serm. (1717) V. 300 Those false Rates and Grounds, by which Men generally fore-judge of the Issue or Event of Actions. 1734 W. Giffard Case Midwif. lvii. 129, I..prepared to attempt the delivery, forejudging the inconveniencies I might meet with. 1792 G. Washington Lett. Writ. 1891 XII. 177 Some infallible rule by which we could fore-judge events. |
3. (See quot.)
| 1611 Cotgr., Prejuger, to..foreiudge; to rule, or direct the opinion of Judges by a former iudgement. |
Hence foreˈjudged ppl. a.; foreˈjudging vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| 1561 T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. 54 The determination of the Councell may haue his force, and be as a foreiudged sentence, and yet not hinder the aforesaid examination. 1571 Golding Calvin on Ps. xlii. 8 This proud vaunting rose of..malicious forejudging. 1580 Sidney Arcadia v. (1598) 433 If you will suffer attentiue iudgement and not fore⁓iudging passion, to bee the waigher of my wordes. 1633 Ford Broken H. iv. iii, Cleave not my heart..With your fore-judging fears. |
▪ II. forejudge
see forjudge.