prejudice noun
Category: social processes.
1604, Cawdrey: (preiudice)
hindering ones cause, sentence, an opinion deliuered [delivered] before knowledge of any thing.
1626, Cockeram: (preiudice)
harme hinderance. Researcher's notes: Note, however, that related words in this dictionary have a more typical meaning. Preiudicate, for example, is defined 'to judge rashly, without due triall', preiudication as 'a judging before-hand', and preiudicall as 'hurtfull.'