precogitatedadj.
/priːˈkɒdʒᵻteɪtᵻd/, U.S. /priˈkɑdʒəˌteɪdᵻd/ Now rare.
That has been thought about beforehand; premeditated.
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the mind > will > intention > planning > [adjective] > characterized by or given to premeditation > premeditated
forethoughtc1425
precogitatec1475
prepensed1528
foreset?1545
perpensed?c1550
premeditatea1555
premeditated1583
foreplotted1641
precogitateda1652
predeliberated1671
prepense1688
calculated1863
a1652 R. Brome City Wit iii. ii. sig. C8, in Five New Playes (1653) Now could I Accost that Catlinarian Traytor, that defeated me of my ten pound, I have a precogitated Oration should make him suspend himselfe.
1657 M. Hawke Killing is Murder & No Murder sig. Av It is Murder in any private Person upon precogitated malice to kill any private Man.
1770 Information for Archibald Earl of Eglintoun & James Montgomery, Esq. 38 In the Case Murray contra Gray..the Lords found the Libel relevant, and that there was no Necessity of any distinct Probation for proving precogitated Malice.
1860 R. B. Warden Voter's Version Life & Char. Stephen Arnold Douglas Introd. 13 I am not about to perpetrate precogitated praises of our ‘Little Giant’.
1874 A. H. Chappell Misc. Georgia ii. vii. 89 The palpable, precogitated object of inserting this clause was that the Yazoo companies should..be entitled to sell or convey to all other foreigners than [etc.].
1901 Eng. Hist. Rev. 16 93 In the one case these are described as breach of the king's peace, hámfare or hamsocn,..in the other as homicide, theft, precogitated hámfare.
1963 Western Polit. Q. 16 832 The interest is neither the asserted claims nor the aspirations of a group; nor is it something objective or logically precogitated.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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