BIAS (4)

Bi″as, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Biased (bī″ast); p. pr. & vb. n. Biasing.] To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess. Me it had not biased in the one direction, nor should it have biased any just critic in the counter direction. De Quincey.