prejudice 
without detracting from one's rights or previous claims : 
a phrase used of overtures and communications between 
the parties to a controversy, Importing that, should the ne- 
gotiation fail, noiliiiiK that hat paaaed shall be taken ad- 
vantage of thereafter. Thus, should the defendant offer, 
without prejudice, to par half the claim, the plaintiff can- 
not consider such offer as an admission of his having a 
right to ~n.li- payment. = 8yn. 2. Harm, detriment, disad- 
vantage. 
prejudice (prej'lj-dis). ' ' > fret, and pp. preju- 
diced, ppr. jH-ejinlii-iiii/. [< prejudice, n.] 1. 
To implant a prejudice in the mind of; bias; 
give an unfair bent to. 
Who shall prejudice thy all-governing will? 
Milton, On Def. of Humb. Remonst. 
It is an irreparable Injustice we are guilty of towards 
one another, when we are prejudiced by the looks and fea- 
tures of those whom we do not know. Spectator, No. 87. 
2. To create a prejudice against; injure by 
prejudice ; hurt, impair, or damage in any 
way. 
In those parts wherein I have erred, I am sure I have 
not prejudiced the right by litigious arguments. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, 11. 380. 
From the beginning of January nntill the midst of June, 
the egs being then most lit for that purpose, neither are 
they prejudiced by thunder. Sandys, Travailes, p. 98. 
The power would be transferred from him that abused 
it to them that were prejudiced and injured by the abuse 
of it. Milton, Ana. to Salmasius. 
Respect to far the holy laws of this fellowship as not 
to prejudice its perfect flower by your Impatience for its 
opening. Emerson, Essays, 1st ser., p. 193. 
= 8711. 1. To prepossess, warp. 
prejudicial (prej-ij-dish'al), o. [< ME. preju- 
diciall, prejudicial!, < OF. prejudicial, prcjudicicl, 
F.prejudiciel = Sp. Pg. prejudicial = It. prcgin- 
diziale, harmful, < LL. preejudieialis, belonging 
to a previous judgment or examination, < L. 
prasjudicium, a previous judgment or examina- 
tion: see j>rejudice.] 1. Pertaining to prejudice 
or prejudgment; prejudiced; biased. 
Tis a sad irreverence, without due consideration, to 
look upon the actions of princes with & prejudicial eye. 
llolyday. 
2. Causing prejudice or injury; hurtful; detri- 
mental ; disadvantageous. 
I'M wlcd alway that all tlici articlis ne noone of them 
be noe wise derogatory, prijndiciall, ne contrary vnto the 
liberties and customys of the said Cite, and the comyn 
wele of the same. Knyliih Qilds (E. E. T. 8.X p. 337. 
The seate where the Syrens sit and chaunt their preiu- 
diciall melodie. 
Greene, Never too Late (Works, ed. Dyce, Int., p. xvii.). 
Men of this temper are unserviceable and prejudicial 
In life. l-.ni:,!,. Physical Fables, if., Expl. 
I must . . . continue to think those luxuries prejudicial 
to states by which so many vices are introduced. 
Goldsmith, Des. VII., Ded. 
= Syn. 2. Deleterious, damaging. 
prejudicial!, ". t. [< prejudicial, .] To preju- 
dice; injure; harm. 
Take heed ; the business, 
If you defer, may prejudicial you 
More than you think for. 
It. Jorarm, Tale of a Tab, II. 1. 
prejudicially (prej-p-dish'al-i), adv. In a 
prejudicial manner; injuriously; disadvanta- 
geouslv. 
prejudicialnessCprej-iJ-dish'al-nes), n. The 
state of being prejudicial ; injuriousness. 
prejudizet, " An obsolete spelling of prejudice. 
preke 1 !, and r. An obsolete form of prick. 
preke- (prek), n. A cuttlefish, the squid : same 
as calamary, 1. 
preknowledge (pre-nol'ej), n. [< pre- + frnoir- 
ledae.] Prior knowledge; foreknowledge. Cole- 
ridge, (imp. Diet.) 
pre-Koranic (pre-ko-ran'ik), o. [< prc- + Ko- 
ran + -ic.] Prior to the Koran. 
An ancient title of the Deity among the pre-Koranic 
Arabs. Cooper, Archaic Diet, p. 30. 
prelacy (prel'a-gi), . ; pi. prelacies (-si/.). [Kar- 
lymou.ii. prelacie, prelagie ; <OF.j>re.Vieie,<ML. 
prslatia, the office or dignity of a prelate, < prte- 
Iniiix, a prelate: gee prelate.] 1. The dignity 
or office of a prelate. 
Lyromedes after enloyed that rrelacie, with fourc Schoe- 
nl of land added thereto. Pur chat. Pilgrimage, p. 321. 
Prelacie* may be termed the greater iKiieflces. 
Ayli/r, Parergon. 
Yet showed his meek and thoughtful eye 
But little pride of prelacy. Scott, Marmlon, ri 11. 
2. The system of church government by prel- 
ates, as distinguished from one in which all 
the clergy are on an equality. 
Prelacy, . . . the ligament which tleth and connecteth 
the limbs of this body politic each to other, hath, Instead 
of deterred honour, all extremity of disgrace. 
Hotter, Fxscli*. Polity, rIL 18. 
How many there are who call themselves Protestants 
who put prelacy and popery together as terms convertible ! 
4690 
Sneer not at what prelacy holds the most pertinaciously 
of her doctrines. 
Landor, William 1'enn and Lord Peterborough. 
3. The order or rank of prelates; the body of 
prelates taken collectively. 
Against the dale assigned, came the said archbishops, 
bishops, abhats, and other of the prelatie, both far and 
neere throughout all England. 
Foxe, Martyrs, p. 241, an. 1220. 
prelalt (pre'lal), a. [< L. prelum, a press, a 
wine-press, < prcmerc, press, bear down upon: 
see press 1 .] Pertaining to printing; typograph- 
ical: as, "prelal faults," fuller. (Imp. Diet.) 
prelate (prel'at), n. [< ME. prelate, prelat. ^ 
OF. prelat, F.'jirelat = 8p. Pg. It. prefato= p. 
prelaat = MLG. prelate = MHG. prelate, prelat, 
G. pralat = Sw. prelat = Dan. preelat, < ML. 
prtelatus, a prelate, prop, adj., 'set over,' < L. 
preelatus, pp. of preefcrre, place or set before or 
above : seeprefer.] An ecclesiastic of a higher 
order, having direct and not delegated authority 
over other ecclesiastics. Prelates include patriarchs, 
metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and in the Roman 
Catholic Church also the heads of religious houses and cer- 
tain other dignitaries. 
A priourc that is a prelate of any chnrche Cathedralle 
Above abbot or prloure with-ln the diocise sitte he shallc. 
Babeet Book (E. E. T. S.X p. 193. 
A prelate Is that man, whosoever he be, that hath a flock 
to be taught of him. Latimer, Sermon of the Plough. 
Hear him but reason in divinity, . . . 
You would desire the king were made a prelate. 
Shak., lieu. V., i. 1. 40. 
prelate! (prel'at), v. i. [(.prelate, n.] To act 
as a prelate ; perform the duties of a prelate. 
Ye that be prelates, look well to your office ; for right 
prclating is busy laboring, and not lording. 
Latimer, .Sermon of the Plough. 
prelateityt (prel-a-te'i-ti), n. [< prelate + 
-*-''y-] Prelacy; tho theory or system of ec- 
clesiastical government by prelates. 
Whether Prelaty or Prelaleity in abstract notion be this 
or that, it suffices me that I mid it. 
Milton, Church-Government, II. 1. 
prelatelyt, . [< prelate + -fyi.] Of a prel- 
ato; prelatical. 
Their copes, perrours, and chasubles, when they be In 
their prelately pompous sacrifices. 
Bp. Bale, Select Works, p. 526. (Dorics.) 
prelateship (prel'at -ship), n. [< prelate + 
-ship.] The office ov dignity of a prelate. Foxe. 
Martyrs, p. 280, an. 1118. 
prelatess(p rel 't-es), n. [< prelate + -ess.] 1. 
A female prelate. 
The adversary . . . raps up without pity the sage and 
rheumatick old prelate** with all her young Corinthian 
Laity to Inquire for such a one. 
Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
2. The wife of a prelate. [Humorous.] 
"I cannot tell yon how dreadfully Indecent her conduct 
was." " Was it? said the delighted countess. "Insuffer- 
able," said the prelates*. 
Trollope, Barchcster Towers, xxxvii. 
prelatial (pre-la'shal), a. [< ML. prselatia, 
prelacy (see prelacy), + -al.] Prelatical ; epis- 
copal. [Rare.] 
Servants came in bearing a large and magnificent port- 
folio ; it was of morocco and of prelatial purple. 
Disraeli, Lothatr, jcvill. (Darief.) 
prelatie (pre-lat'ik), a. [< prelate + -ic.] Of 
or pertaining to prelacy or prelates; supporting 
prelacy. 
Many on the Prrlalict side, like the Church of Sardis, 
have a name to live, and yet are dead. 
Milttm, Church-Government, i. 6. 
prelatical (pre-lat'i-kal), a. [< prelatie + -al] 
Same as prelatie. 
We charge the Prelatical Clergy with Popery to make 
them odious. Selden, Table-Talk, p. 88. 
We hold it [the Presbyterial government! no more to 
be the hedge and bulwark of religion than the Popish or 
J'rrlnlical courts, or the Spanish Inquisition. 
MUlmi, Articles of Peace with the Irish. 
The prelatical party, which had endeavored again and 
again to colonize the coast, had tried only to fail. 
Bancroft, Hist. U. 8., I. 267. 
prelatically (pre-lat'i-kal-i), adv. As a prelate ; 
with reference to prelacy. 
prelationt (pre-la'shp.n), n. [< ME. prclacion, < 
OF. prelatinn, )>relacion, F. prelatian = Sp. pre- 
liiritm = I'g. prelofffo = li.prelazinne, < lAj.pree- 
lalio(n-), a preferring, a preference, < li.prsela- 
tus, pp. of preefcrrc, prefer: see prelate, prefer.] 
1. The act of preferring or setting one thing 
above another; exaltation. 
A direct preference or prelatinn, a preferring sin before 
grace. Jar. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835X I. 667. 
2. The state of being preferred or exalted 
above others; prci'miii'-nfo; preferment. 
Let, therefore, our life be moderate, oar desires reason- 
able, our hopes little, our ends none In eminency and pre- 
lotion above others. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 104. 
prelection 
prelatisht (prel'St-ish), a. [(.prelate + -isTt 1 .] 
Prelatical. 
In any congregation of this Island that hath not been 
altogether famished or wholly perverted with prelatah 
leaven, there will not want divers plain and solid men. 
Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus, | viil. 
prelatism (prel'at-izm), n. [< prelate + -inn.] 
1. Prelacy; episcopacy. 
What doe wee suffer mis-shaped and enormous Prelat. 
itme, as we do. thus to blanch and varnish her deformi- 
ties with the falre colours, as before of Martyrdome, so 
now of Episcopacie? MUtan, Reformation in Eng., L 
2. The belief in and advocacy of episcopacy: 
usually in an invidious sense. 
The Connects themselves were foully corrupted with 
ungodly Prelatimie. Milton, Prelatical Kpiscopacy. 
prelatist (prel'at-ist), n. [< prelate + -int.] 
An advocate of prelacy, or of the government 
of the church by bishops; an episcopalian. 
Even the Grotian vrelatisU would wipe their mouths 
and speak me fairer if I could turn to them. 
Baxter, Treatise of Self-denial, Pref. 
The island now known as East Boston was occupied by 
Samuel Maverick, . . . himself a prelatiit. 
Bancrofl, Hist. U. 8., I. 266. 
prelatize (prel'at-Iz), . ; pret. and pp. prelat- 
ized, ppT.prclatizing. [< prelate + -i:c.] I.t 
intrans. To become prelatical; uphold or en- 
courage prelacy ; encourage or be imbued with 
episcopal doctrines and practices. 
But being they arc churchmen, we may rather suspect 
them for some prelatizing Spirits, that admire our bishop- 
ricks, not episcopacy. Muton, Reformation In Eng., 11. 
As for Cyprians time, the cause was farre unlike : he In- 
deed succeeded into an Episcopacy that began then to 
J'rtlatur. MOton, On DM. of Uumb. Remonst. 
U. trans. To bring under the influence and 
power of prelacy; influence toward prelacy. 
Prelatizing the church of Scotland. Palfrey. 
prelatryt (prel'at-ri), n. [< prelate + -ry.] 
Prelacy. 
The painted battlements and gaudy rottenness of prel- 
atry . . . want but one pun* of the king's to blow them 
down like a pasteboard house built of courtcards. 
Milton, Reformation In Eng., II. 
prelature (prel'a-tur), H. [< OF. prelature, F. 
prelaturc = 'Pr. Sp. Pg.prelatura = It. prelatura 
= G.pralatur = Sw. prelatitr, < ML. prselatura, 
the office of a prelate, < preelatus, a prelate: see 
prelate.] I. The state, dignity, or office of a 
prelate ; also, the period during which the func- 
lions of a prelate are exercised. 
Lycia ... is chiefly celebrated for tho holy Bishop 8. 
Nicolas, whose pruiso is in all churches, though the time 
of his prelature is somewhat uncertain. 
J. M. Stale, Eastern Church, L 40. 
2. Prelacy; the order of prelates. 
Theyoungerbranchcsof the greatprincely families . . . 
by no means disdained the lofty titles, the dignity, the 
splendid and wealthy palaces of the Prelature. 
Milman, Latin Christianity, xiv. 1. 
prelatyt (prel'a-ti), it. [< OF. prelatie, prelacie, 
< JilL.priflalia, prelacy: seeprelacy.] 1. Prel- 
acy; episcopacy. 
It was not the prevention of schlsme. but it was schlsme 
It selfe, and the hatcfull thirst of Lording In the Church, 
that first bcstow'd a being upon Prelaty. 
Mill, in, Church-Government, i. 6. 
2. A prelatical office. [Bare.] 
Laborious teaching Is the most honourable Prelaty that 
one Minister can have above another in the Oospell. 
Milton, C'hurch-fiovernment, 1. 8. 
prelect (pre-lekf), v. [Also prselect; < L. prep- 
lectus, pp. 'of preslegere, read (anything) to or 
before (others), lecture upon, < pree, before, + 
legere, read: see lection, legend.] I. trans. To 
read publicly, as a lecture. 
II. intrans. To read a lecture or discourse 
in public ; hence, to discourse publicly ; lecture. 
I should seem not to have taken warning by the con- 
tempt which fell on that conceited Greek who had the 
vanity to prelect upon the military art before the con* 
qnerors of Asia. Hartley, Works, III. mix. 
Spitting was shown to be a very difficult act, and pub- 
licly prelected upon about the same time. In the same great 
capital. De Quincty, Conversation. 
prelection (pre-lek'shon), H. [Also preelection ; 
< L. pnelcctio(n-), a reading aloud to (others), 
< prxlegere, pp. prteleetus, read aloud: see pre- 
lect.] A lecture; a public discourse ; a sermon. 
Yon remember my last prelection of the division of the 
earth into parts real and imaginary ? 
Shirley, Witty Fair One, U. 1. 
An English ambassador, at the court of Philip II. 's 
viceroy, could imlnlge himself In imaginary prelection* on 
the .Km id, in the lant da>s nf July, t the year of our l-oril 
16881 Motley, Hist. Netherlands, II. 40S. 
The counteraction of these errors by the prelectioni at 
godly and experienced ministers. 
I IM. Ane. Merchant*' Lecture. 
