Also 6 for-. [f. FORE pref. + JUDGEMENT: cf. prec.]
1. Judgment determined or formed beforehand.
1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. Mark, Pref. 3 a. It is not my parte to make any ones title either better or worse with my fore-iudgment.
1591. Spenser, Muiopotmos, 320.
| That all the Gods, which saw his wondrous might, | |
| Did surely deeme the victorie his due: | |
| But seldome seene, forejudgment proveth true. |
1862. Seward, in The Saturday Review (1863), XV. 28 March, 404/1. That Great Britain did, in the most terrible moment of our domestic trial in struggling with a monstrous social evil she had earnestly professed to abhor, boldly and at once assume our inability to master it, and thus become the only foreign nation steadily contributing in every indirect way possible to verify its forejudgment, will probably be the only verdict made up against her by posterity.
† 2. A judgment previously pronounced; a judicial precedent. Obs.
1599. Blundevile, Art Logic, IV. iii. 104. What call you Fore-iudgementes or Ruled Cases? They bee Iudgementes or sentences heretofore pronounced, whereby Iudges take example to giue like iudgement in like Cases.
