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▪ I. † preˈmeditate, a. Obs.
[ad. L. præmeditātus, pa. pple. (with passive sense, Cic.) of præmeditārī to premeditate: see pre- A. 1 and meditate a.]
1. = premeditated ppl. a. 1.
1555Bradford in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) III. App. xlv. 128 Neverthelesse I shall declare the premedytate myschiffe. 1581Lambarde Eiren. ii. vii. (1588) 239 Man⁓slaughter upon premeditate malice. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. ix. 82 Not making odious comparisons betwixt..Publick prayer and Private, Premeditate prayer and Extempore. 1752J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 80 From a propense and premeditate Malice.
2. Using premeditation or previous deliberation; considerate, deliberate.
1592G. Harvey Four Lett. Wks. (Grosart) I. 177 A premeditate, and resolute minde lightly shaketh off the heauiest crosses of malice. 1597J. Payne Royal Exch. 40 Studiouse labourers, as premeditate for doctrine and exhortation, and as carefull for good lyfe and conversation.
▪ II. premeditate, v.|priːˈmɛdɪteɪt|
Also 6 premydytatt, pa. pple. premiditat.
[f. ppl. stem of L. præmeditārī, or f. pre- A. 1 + meditate v.; cf. F. préméditer (14th c.)]
To meditate beforehand.
1. a. trans. To ponder upon or study with a view to subsequent action, to think out beforehand; now esp. to plan or contrive previously.
a1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV 220 That they shoulde before hande premeditate with themselues maturely and deliberatly these thynges by her moued. 1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 593 Cæsar..made an oration penned and premeditated before. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. xli. (1663) 161 Mendez, who had long before premeditated his answer. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. 217, I began now to premeditate the Destruction of the next that I saw there. 1832Austin Jurispr. (1879) I. xx. 444 When the act is done the party contemplates the consequence, although he has not premeditated the consequence or the act. 1929S. Leslie Anglo-Catholic xvi. 231 Your Aquin often premeditated modern theories, but he is generally truest..when his followers or commentators try their hardest to explain him away. 1965K. Sisam Struct. Beowulf 3 Beowulf, with more lapses and more use of devices that help an improviser, has many of the marks of premeditated art.
†b. To think of or consider in anticipation. Obs.
1566Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 473 That all troubill and occasioun of disordour be afoirhand foirsene and premiditat.
2. intr. To think deliberately beforehand or in advance (on or of something).
1586B. Young Guazzo's Civ. Conv. iv. 204 b, While the men propowned their conceites, you (faire Ladies) may haue time to premeditate and thinke on yours. 1647in Bury Wills (Camden) 195 It is the dutie therefore of euerie christian soe to premeditate of that day, and soe to dispose of his earthly affaires, that he may be allwayes in a readinesse. 1685Cotton tr. Montaigne (1711) I. xix. 98 To premeditate is doubtless a very great advantage. 1849James Woodman xi, I never premeditate, dear lady.
†3. To form a (specified) opinion beforehand; to think (well or ill) of previously. Obs. rare—1.
1590in Tolstoy 1st 40 Yrs. Interc. Eng. & Russ. (1875) 368 We take hold of your loving consideracion..and will premydytatt the best of you.
Hence preˈmeditating ppl. a.; whence preˈmeditatingly adv., with or by premeditation.
1839Lady Lytton Cheveley (ed. 2) III. v. 107 He was determined religiously to adhere to his promise to Julia, of not premeditatingly putting himself in her way. |