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prejudicial, a.1|prɛdʒəˈdɪʃəl|
[In form corresp. to F. préjudicial, -el (1321 in Hatz.-Darm.) preceding judgement, and late L. præjūdiciālis belonging or according to a preceding judgement; but in sense belonging to prejudice n.: see -al1.]
1. Causing prejudice; of injurious tendency; detrimental, damaging (to rights, interests, etc.).[1304Year-bk. 32 Edw. I (Rolls) 111 La quele occupacioun..ne nous deit estre prejudiciel.] 1433Rolls of Parlt. IV. 472/1 The Kyng wille, that the graunte..be not prejudiciell nor hurt to the seide John. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 351 Preiudyciall to the vnyuersall weale of the realme. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 44 b, Certein thinges were enacted, which they sawe should be preiudiciall to them. 1661Sanderson (title) Episcopacy..Not Prejudicial to Regal Power. a1704T. Brown Praise of Wealth Wks. 1730 I. 84 Nothing more prejudicial to great power than to own itself in the wrong. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xix. IV. 360 The existing system, it was said, was prejudicial both to commerce and to learning.
†b. Of animals: Harmful, noxious. Obs. rare.
1602Rowlands Greene's Ghost 3 Vipers,..that for their venime and poison are hated and shunned of all men, as most preiudiciall creatures.
†c. Liable to be prejudiced or injured. Obs. rare.
1682Lond. Gaz. No. 1704/4 There being several great Trusts in his Name, which will be unavoidably prejudicial by his absence.
†2. Of the nature of prejudice; full of prejudice, prejudiced († to = against), unfavourably prepossessed. Obs.
1535Starkey Let. in England (1878) p. xxx, You schold, wythout any preiudicial affectyon taken of any man apon one parte or other..gyue your sentence. 1554Knox Godly Let. C vij b, I am not preiudiciall too Gods mercies. 1609Bp. W. Barlow Answ. Nameless Cath. 169 The Emperor was..preiudiciall in his opinion, hauing already enacted a Law for the Arrian Doctrine. 1623T. Scot Highw. God 35 Man was a Iudge preiudiciall and partiall. 1639B. Holyday Serm. Obed. (1661) 23 To look upon the actions of Princes with a prejudicial eye. 1643Milton Divorce ii. ix. Wks. 1851 IV. 86 It was no time then to contend with their slow and prejudiciall belief.
Hence † prejuˈdicial v. (illiterate), to prejudice.
1633B. Jonson Tale Tub ii. ii, Basket Hilts. Take heed; the busines If you deferre, may prejudiciall you More than you thinke-for, zay I told you so. |