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premeditation|priːmɛdɪˈteɪʃən|
Also 7 præ-.
[ad. L. præmeditātiōn-em, n. of action f. præmeditārī to premeditate. So F. préméditation (-cion 14th c.).]
The action of premeditating; previous meditation. a. Previous deliberation upon or thinking out of something to be done; now esp. designing, planning, or contrivance to do something.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) IV. 313 Moore scharpe and apte to an answere withowte deliberacion then with premeditacion. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxvii. 158 A Crime,..he that doth it with præmeditation, has used circumspection [etc.]. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 368 Premeditation being a very necessary Preliminary to Building. a1832Mackintosh Revol. of 1688, Wks. 1846 II. 40 There are probably few instances where, with so much premeditation and effrontery, the spoils of an accused man were promised..to the judge, who might have tried him. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola xxxix, The passionate words were like blows—they defied premeditation. 1892Zangwill Bow Mystery (1895) 124 The prisoner murdered his friend and fellow-lodger..in cold blood, and with the most careful premeditation.
†b. The action of thinking of or considering something beforehand or previously (without implication of purpose). Obs.
a1450Mankind 44 in Macro Plays 2, I be-sech yow hertyly, haue þis premedytacyon. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 36 Somtyme dremes may come of some premeditacyon or thought that a persone hath had þe daye before. 1685Cotton tr. Montaigne (1877) I. 82 The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learned to die has unlearned to serve. |