(followed by the preposition to) having a predilection for something
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not partial to an ostentatious display
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1815 February 23, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
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But if a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out.
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1817, Jane Austen, chapter 6, in Pride and Prejudice, page 32: