Suffer not any beloved study to prejudice your mind
so far as to despise all other learning. --I. Watts
2. To obstruct or injure by prejudices, or by previous bias
of the mind; hence, generally, to hurt; to damage; to
injure; to impair; as, to prejudice a good cause.
Seek how may prejudice the foe. --Shak
Naught might hinder his quick prejudize. --Spenser.
2. An opinion or judgment formed without due examination;
prejudgment; a leaning toward one side of a question from
other considerations than those belonging to it; an
unreasonable predilection for, or objection against,
anything; especially, an opinion or leaning adverse to
anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient
knowledge.
Though often misled by prejudice and passion, he was
emphatically an honest man. --Macaulay.
3. (Law) A bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which
interferes with fairness of judgment.
4. Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment. --Locke.
England and France might, through their amity, Breed
him some prejudice. --Shak.
Syn: Prejudgment; prepossession; bias; harm; hurt; damage;
detriment; mischief; disadvantage.