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Webster 1913 Edition
Forejudge
Fore-judge′
,Verb.
T.
[
Fore
+ judge
.] To judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof; to prejudge.
Fore-judge′
,Verb.
T.
[For
forjudge
, fr. F. forjuger
; OF. fors
outside, except + F. juger
to judge.] (O. Eng. Law)
To expel from court for some offense or misconduct, as an attorney or officer; to deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court.
Burrill.
Webster 1828 Edition
Forejudge
FOREJUDGE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To prejudge; to judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof.2.
In law, to expel from a court, for malpractice or non-appearance. When an attorney is sued, and called to appear in court, if he declines, he is forejudged, and his name is struck from the rolls.Definition 2024
forejudge
forejudge
English
Verb
forejudge (third-person singular simple present forejudges, present participle forejudging, simple past and past participle forejudged)
- Alternative form of forjudge
Etymology 2
Verb
forejudge (third-person singular simple present forejudges, present participle forejudging, simple past and past participle forejudged)
- (transitive) To judge beforehand; prejudge.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
- Man doth willingly apply other mens sayings to the advantage of the opinions he hath fore-judged [transl. prejugées] in himselfe.
- 1958, The Bedside "Guardian"
- His defence was so compact and effortless, the feet always in position so swiftly and so correctly, and the bat so brushingly close to the front foot or the body that it was again as of old as if each ball had been forejudged uncannily by some cricketer's act of clairvoyance.
- 2012, Diamantis Panagiotopoulos, Minoan Realities
- Before we forejudge that Palaima's aforementioned statement is wrong let us try to embed this motif into its original social context.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12: