单词 | premeditator |
释义 | premeditatorn. A person who premeditates. ΚΠ 1741 W. Newton Hist. & Antiq. Maidstone xiii. 142 He [sc. Ball]..was the Premeditator [L. premeditatorem] of his pestiferous Invention, the strong Cutter-asunder or Divider of Ecclesiastical Unity. 1799 Hare ii. 12 The premeditator of my mischief I hardly beheld, but I heard the stick strike the earth. 1852 U.S. Democratic Rev. Apr. 290/1 A dangerous and suspicious character, something between a swindler and a premeditator of arson. 1970 Slavic & East European Jrnl. 14 188 The unsympathetic figures..are premeditators, desirers, caught in the toils of yu-wei (positive action), who never see or find the way. 1996 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 22 Nov. f1 Hickock, the glib premeditator of the shootings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1741 |
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