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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Prejudice \Prej"u*dice\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Prejudiced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prejudicing}.] [Cf. F. pr['e]judicier. See {Prejudice}, noun]
1. To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman.
Suffer not any beloved study to prejudice your mind so far as to despise all other learning. --I. Watts
2. To obstruct or injure by prejudices, or by previous bias of the mind; hence, generally, to hurt; to damage; to injure; to impair; as, to prejudice a good cause.
Seek how may prejudice the foe. --Shak
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
prejudiced
adjective
1: emanating from a person's emotions and prejudices
2: being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand; "a prejudiced judge" [syn: {discriminatory}] [ant: {unprejudiced}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "prejudiced": antiblack, biased, bigoted, chauvinistic, closed-minded, colored, doctrinaire, dogmatic, influenced, interested, intolerant, jaundiced, know-nothing, narrow-minded, nonobjective, one-sided, opinionated, parochial, partial, partisan, predisposed, prepossessed, racist, sexist, superpatriotic, swayed, tendentious, twisted, ultranationalist, undetached, undispassionate, unfair, warped, xenophobic
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