unprejudgedadj.

1641 Acts 2nd Parl. Charles I 141 Conform to the saids vassals their infestments and rights, made and pertaining to them, which are hereby declared to be unprejudged by the abolishing of the saids Bishops and their chapters.

1658 J. Durham Comm. Bk. Revelation 70 Christ is an unprejudged witnesse, and should be esteemed so by His Church.

1661 in L. B. Taylor Aberdeen Council Lett. (1954) IV. 124 The same [right of entry] shall stand valeid..unhurt and unprejudged in any sort be vertue of the said ratificatioun.

1701 W. Anstruther Ess., Moral & Divine iv. 156 I appeal to the candour and ingenuity of any unprejudged Reason.

1750 W. Duff New Hist. Scotl. 47 The Sense that all impartial and unprejudg'd Persons in Scotland had, of the Honour and good Behaviour of the Court of England towards King James.

1812 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 9 814 He concluded by hoping that the house would not come to any decision on the subject, but leave it in an unprejudged state for the consideration of another session.

1888 Times 31 Aug. 3/1 The question of sovereignty remained unprejudged.

1909 Standard 27 Mar. 4/2 Leave the measure unprejudiced and unprejudged—still in the field—to be taken up later if it were found that the Government Bill were not satisfactory.

2009 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 106 10034/2 Truths of universal validity would be expected eventually to emerge, as a result of the relentless accumulation of unprejudged observations.