ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1648. Boyle, Seraph. Love (1659), 15. That with compos’d and unprepossessed thoughts you may judge of the Object, I propose to you.
1659. South, Serm. (1679), 72. The Unprepossessed on the one hand, and the well disposed on the other.
1705. Stanhope, Paraph., I. 39. The Miracle upon Lazarus … which put the unprepossessed Multitudes upon celebrating the Glories of this Mighty Prophet.
1768. Sterne, Sent. Journ. (1775), I. 67. Being pretty much unprepossessed, there must have been grounds for what struck me the moment I cast my eyes over the parterre.
1818. Foster, Ess. (1844), I. 468. A mind of … strong intelligence…, entirely unprepossessed with any theory or system.
Hence Unprepossessedly adv.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa, III. 211. Had she been left unprepossessedly to herself, she would have shewn favour to me.
