Definition of "prepossessed" [prepossessed]

• Simple past tense and past participle of prepossess. (verb)
• Showing bias or partiality (adjective)

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• "“But so prepossessed were they in favor of regularity and discipline, and in such contempt were these people held, that the admonition was suggested in vain.”"
• ""One must not be in the least prepossessed in favour of the real existence of the thing," he writes in the Critique of Judgement (1790) "but must preserve complete indifference in this respect, in order to play the part of judge in matters of taste.""
• "Individual scientists - because they are prepossessed as anti-theists or atheists, for other reasons as well - say a great deal, both openly and covertly, about the idea - of a creator, that's why."