ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
1. Of bowls: Having a bias.
1611. Markham, Countr. Content., i. (1615), 108. Your round byazed bowles for open grounds.
1877. Eg.-Warburton, Poems, 15. The bias’d bowl roll’d circling to the jack.
2. Influenced; inclined in some direction; unduly or unfairly influenced; prejudiced.
1649. G. Daniel, Trinarch. Rich. II., lxxv. How byassed all humane Actions are!
1662. Fuller, Worthies, III. 110. If he were a Biassed and Partiall writer.
1681. Dryden, Abs. & Achit., I. 79. When to Sin our byast Nature leans.
1870. Pall Mall Gaz., 18 Aug., 2. Abstention from biassed language.
