different between biased vs prejudicate

English

Alternative forms

• biassed (British)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?ba??st/
• Rhymes: -a??st

Adjective

biased (comparative more biased, superlative most biased)

1. Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.

   Synonyms: partial, prejudiced, tendentious

2. Angled at a slant.

3. (electrical engineering) On which an electrical bias is applied.
4. (statistics) Exhibiting a systematic distortion of results due to a factor not allowed for in its derivation; skewed.

Translations

Verb

biased

1. simple past tense and past participle of bias

Anagrams

• abides, debias

English

Alternative forms

• præjudicate (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praei?dic?tus, past participle of praei?dic? (“pre-judge”). Doublet of prejudge.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p?i??d?u?d?k?t/

Adjective

prejudicate (comparative more prejudicate, superlative most prejudicate)

1. (obsolete) Prejudiced, biased. [16th-19th c.]
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.7:

     their works will be embraced by most that understand them, and their reasons enforce belief even from prejudicate Readers.

2. Preconceived (of an opinion, idea etc.); formed before the event. [from 16th c.]
   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     ignorances and prejudicate opinions

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p?i??d?u?d?ke?t/

Verb

prejudicate (third-person singular simple present prejudicates, present participle prejudicating, simple past and past participle prejudicated)

1. (transitive, intransitive, now rare) To determine beforehand, especially rashly; to prejudge. [from 16th c.]
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, First Folio 1623:

     the Florentine will moue vs / For speedie ayde: wherein our deerest friend / Preiudicates the businesse, and would seeme / To haue vs make deniall.