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Narrowness or illiberality of opinion; prejudice; exclusiveness; as, the insularity of the Chinese or of the aristocracy.

Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness.

inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; -- usually in a bad sense; as, the inveteracy of prejudice or of error. An inveteracy of evil habits that will prompt him to contract more. A. Tucker.

Vain boasting or assertions repeated to the prejudice of another's right; false claim. Mozley & W.

To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice. The envy of wealth jaundiced his soul. Ld. Lytton.

Prejudiced; envious; as, a jaundiced judgment.

ty or state of being liberal; liberal disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice; generosity; candor; charity. That liberality is but cast away Which makes us borrow what we can not pay. Denham.

To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.

to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases.

fe probable; lasting long; as, a long-lived tree; they are a longlived family; long-lived prejudices.

to look at a star; hence, to observe, examine, consider; as, to look at a matter without prejudice. -- To look black, to frown; to scowl; to have a threatening appearance. The bishops thereat repined, and looked black. Holinshed. -- To look down on or upon, to treat with indifference or contempt; to regard as an infe…

Prejudice; prepossession. [Obs.] Sir. H. Blount.

Influenced by prejudice; biased. [R.] " With not too hasty and prejudicant ears." Milton.

Biased by opinions formed prematurely; prejudiced. "Prejudicate readers." Sir T. Browne.

With prejudice.

Biased, possessed, or blinded by prejudices; as, to look with a prejudicial eye. [Obs.] Holyday.

To prepossess; to prejudice. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

To prepossess; to engage, occupy, or engross the attention of, beforehand; hence, to prejudice. I Think it more respectful to the reader to leave something to reflections than to preoccupy his judgment. Arbuthnot.

Opinion previously formed; prepossession; prejudice. Sir T. Browne.

To preoccupy, as the mind or heart, so as to preclude other things; hence, to bias or prejudice; to give a previous inclination to, for or against anything; esp., to induce a favorable opinion beforehand, or at the outset. It created him enemies, and prepossessed the lord general. Evelyn.