Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Prejudge

Prejudge ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb

[Prefix pre + judge: compare French préjuger. Compare Prejudicate, Prejudice.]

To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand.
The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament“ a universal clamor.” — Swift