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Prepense
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Part of speech: verb (v.)
To weigh or consider beforehand; to premeditate. [Obs.] Spenser. Sir T. Elyot.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To deliberate beforehand. [Obs.]
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; -- usually placed after the word it qualifies; as, malice prepense. This has not arisen from any misrepresentation or error prepense. Southey.