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preˈmeditated, ppl. a.
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Considered, contemplated, or composed beforehand; previously contrived or planned.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. v. i. 96 Great Clearkes haue purposed To greete me with premeditated welcomes. 1593Tell-Troth's N.Y. Gift (1876) 18 Their premeditated mischief. 1638R. Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. III.) 75 You shall receive from me no premeditated excuses, I had rather confess my fault. 1709Steele Tatler No. 36 ⁋3 A premeditated Quarrel usually begins and works up with the Words, Some People. 1870Mrs. J. H. Riddell A. Friars iii, Her going was not the result of a premeditated plan.
†2. Of a person: Prepared by premeditation; = premeditate a. 2. Obs. rare—1.
1651Life Father Sarpi (1676) 10 To argue to some conclusion, wherein it was impossible he should be premeditated.
Hence preˈmeditatedly adv., with premeditation, advisedly, deliberately; preˈmeditatedness, the quality or fact of being premeditated.
1727Bailey vol. II, *Premeditatedly. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) IV. xxxv. 230 Resolutions so premeditatedly made. 1817J. W. Croker in C. Papers 26 Nov., Some blunders crept in accidentally, and one or two were premeditatedly added.
1659Gauden Tears Ch. i. xii. 89 Its order, *premeditatedness, and constancy of devotion was never forbidden or disallowed by God. 1825Bentham Offic. Apt. Maximized, Indic. (1830) 58 Premeditatedness—is it not in possession of being regarded as operating in extenuation of moral guilt? |