a. Obs. [UN-1 7, 5 b.] Unprejudiced (Common in 17th c.)

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1609.  Hoby’s Lett. to T. H., Printer to Rdr. 115. For the better satisfaction of the vnpreiudicate Reader.

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1624.  J. Reynolds, Votivæ Angliæ. To common sence, and unprejudicate judgments.

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1650.  H. More, Observ., in Enthus. Tri., etc. (1656), 78. His humility and purity of mind and unprejudicate reason.

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1679.  J. Goodman, Penit. Pard., I. i. 11. Discourses … plain and intelligible to such unprejudicate minds.

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1692.  R. Barclay, Truth Triumphant, To Rdr. I hope, will give some Satisfaction to Men of sober Judgments, and impartial and unprejudicate Spirits.

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1713.  Sacred Use of Organs, 27–8. But the Reverse of such a Supposition is evident enough to every uprejudicate Person, from the Testimonies I’ve produc’d from their Writings.

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  Hence Unprejudicately adv., -ness.

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a. 1662.  Sanderson, Cases Consc., iii. (1678), 74. Doubts and difficulties meet to be … unprejudicately weighed against those other probabilities.

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1668.  H. More, Div. Dial., II. 416. All the difficulty is to get to that state of Unprejudicateness.

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1683.  E. Hooker, Prof. Pordage’s Mystic Div., Postscr., 111. Shold you pleace to lai the … Ear of conscientious unpræjudicateness as close to the voice of these Mysteries as I did.

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