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Determine vs Prejudicate - What's the difference?

determine | prejudicate |

In obsolete terms the difference between determine and prejudicate

is that determine is to bring to an end; to finish while prejudicate is prejudiced, biased.

As verbs the difference between determine and prejudicate

is that determine is to set the limits of while prejudicate is to determine beforehand, especially rashly; to prejudge.

As an adjective prejudicate is

prejudiced, biased.

determine

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Verb

(determin)
  • To set the limits of.
  • * Bible, Acts xvii. 26
    • [God] hath determined the times before appointed.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The knowledge of men hitherto hath been determined by the view or sight.
  • To ascertain definitely; to figure out.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine . The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.}}
  • To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.
  • * J. Edwards
    • The character of the soul is determined by the character of its God.
  • * W. Black
    • something divinely beautiful that at some time or other might influence or even determine her course of life
  • To fix the course of; to impel and direct; with a remoter object preceded by to .
    • Someone else's will determined me to this course.
  • To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide.
    • The court has determined the cause.
  • To resolve on; to have a fixed intention of; also, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead.
    • The news of his father's illness determined him to depart immediately.
  • (logic) To define or limit by adding a differentia.
  • (obsolete) To bring to an end; to finish.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Now, where is he that will not stay so long / Till his friend sickness hath determined me?

    Derived terms

    {{der3, determinant , determination , determiner , determinism , determinist , overdetermine , underdetermine}}

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    prejudicate

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Prejudiced, biased.
  • *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.
  • Preconceived (of an opinion, idea etc.); formed before the event.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • ignorance and prejudicate opinions

    Verb

    (prejudicat)
  • *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.