Forejudge

v. Also 7 forjudge. [f. FORE- pref. + 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. sb.].

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, and they should not be able to supply the Common-wealth with wholesome Laws, suitable to the Diseases it labour’d under.

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 and alas too Galilee had sent forth to forejudge and to condemn.

  † 2.  To form a judgment or opinion of beforehand. Also intr. with of.>Obs.

1603.  Sir C. Heydon, Jud. Astrol., To Rdr. 7. They rashely forejudge what I thinke.

a. 1716.  South, Serm. (1717), V. 300. Those false Rules and Grounds, by which Men generally fore-judge of the Issue and Event of Actions.

1734.  W. Giffard, Cases in Midwifry, lvii. 129. I therefore immediately prepared to attempt the Delivery, forejudging the inconveniencies I might meet with, on account of the Waters being entirely run off several hours before, and the Arm having lain so long in the Passage.

1792.  G. Washington, Lett., Writ. 1891, XII. 177. There shall be some infallible rule by which we could forejudge events.

  3.  (See quot.)

1611.  Cotgr., Prejuger, to … foreiudge; to rule, or direct the opinion of Judges by a former iudgement.

  Hence Forejudged ppl. a.; Forejudging vbl. sb. 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 that malicious forejudging.

1580.  Sidney, Arcadia, v. (1598), 433. If you will suffer attentiue iudgement and not forejudging passion, to bee the waigher of my wordes.

1633.  Ford, The Broken Heart, IV. iii.