premeditatedadj.

1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Ff2 There by mine aduise thou shalt exhibit thy complaint in some prety piteous premeditated oration.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 94 Great Clerkes haue purposed To greete me, with premeditated welcomes. View more context for this quotation

1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. III. 75 You shall receive from me no premeditated excuses, I had rather confesse my fault.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 36. ⁋3 A premeditated Quarrel usually begins and works up with the Words, Some People.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxvi. 638 These tumults were not the effect of accidental passion, but the result of deep and premeditated design.

1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. x. 133 As Duncan dare not retort upon his accuser, by reminding him of his own premeditated treachery..he remained silent.

1870 C. E. L. Riddell Austin Friars iii Her going was not the result of a premeditated plan.

1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 190 A woman who, in a cold, premeditated fashion, is about to get rid of a rival.

1993 30 Days in Church & in World No. 1. 8/1 The more profound and real change is in life, the less premeditated it is.

1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss iii. l. 37 Premeditated turne-coate.

1651 J. Saint-Amard tr. F. Micanzio Life Father Paul sig. B6^v To argue to some conclusion, wherein it was impossible he should be premeditated.

1727 W. Pattison Poet. Wks. I. 123 Thus spoke the proud pre-meditated Bride.

1792 R. Bage Man as he Is III. lix. 74 Mr. Fielding..has without a blush, declared himself the premeditated seducer of Miss Fluellen.

1810 J. Porter Sc. Chiefs V. iv. 88 We require no other to proclaim your domineering spirit, and to at once condemn you as the premeditated tyrant of our land.

1845 W. A. Caruthers Knights of Horse-shoe xvii. 63 John Spotswood was no premeditated seducor. He never for one moment harbored the deliberate intention.

1945 Amer. Anthropologist 47 571 The entire family of a premeditated murderer was killed and their personal holdings destroyed.

1991 Business Life May 64/2 I was fazed by the Filofaxphiles—those premeditated folk who..who spend all their time budgeting each minute of the day.

1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα i. xii. 89 Its order, premeditatedness, and constancy of devotion was never forbidden or disallowed by God.

1825 J. Bentham Indications Respecting Ld. Eldon 58 Premeditatedness—is it not in possession of being regarded as operating in extenuation of moral guilt?

1881 Times 9 Nov. 9/3 In point of premeditatedness, then, Lefroy's crime was even more atrocious than that of Müller, who murdered Mr. Briggs on the North London Railway.

1994 Art Jrnl. 53 41/1 This premeditatedness and multi-layeredness of a semantically loaded visual image becomes a password to the collection.