prepensen.

Brit.

/prᵻˈpɛns/, U.S.

/priˈpɛns/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: prepense adj.

Etymology: < prepense adj. Compare earlier prepensity n.

Now rare.

Forethought, intention, design.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > [noun] > consideration beforehand

forethoughta1400

premeditationc1450

precogitation1596

precogitancy?a1645

prepense1847

1847 R. Gilfillan in Tait's Edinb. Mag. 14 362 Her poetry is not, of prepense and purpose, the express image of her religious thought.

1875 Harper's Mag. Nov. 860/1 Humor is often unintentional; that is, it causes fun in the collective body without prepense on the part of the occupant of the floor.

1947 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 37 470/1 A distinction between murder..and manslaughter—the killing without prepense—is unknown to these Indians.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

prepenseadj.

Brit.

/prᵻˈpɛns/, U.S.

/priˈpɛns/

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item; originally modelled on a French lexical item. Etymon: prepensed adj.

Etymology: Alteration of prepensed adj., originally after Anglo-Norman prepensé (see prepensed adj.). Compare earlier prepense v., purpensed adj.

a. malice prepense n. (also prepense malice) malice aforethought; wrong or injury purposely done.One of several renderings of the Anglo-Norman legal phrase malice purpensée or malice prepensée (see malice n. 2); now chiefly in extended use. Cf. malice prepensed n. at prepensed adj. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > intention > [adjective] > performed with intention

bethoughtc1200

expressa1400

wilfula1400

purposedc1422

purpensed1436

malice prepensed1454

aforethought1472

studiedc1475

setc1485

voluntary1495

deliberate?1527

willing1550

witting1553

propensed1560

fore-intendeda1586

affected1586

designed1586

determinate1586

intended1592

deliberated1594

uncasual1614

recollecteda1616

resolved1624

industriousa1628

intentionate1631

pre-intended1636

advised1642

malice prepense1647

sedentary1647

propense1650

consultive1651

(crime, evil, etc.) of forethought1692

conscious1726

intentionala1729

systematic1746

studious1750

systematical1750

prepensive1752

advertent1832

self-conscious1832

volitive1839

designful1852

purposeful1853

purposive1864

thought-controlled1926

the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > spitefulness > feeling of spite > [noun] > premeditated

malice prepensed1454

pretenced malice1483

malice prepense1647

society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > criminal intent

purpensed malice1436

malice1454

malice prepensed1454

pretenced malice1483

scienter1618

malice prepense1647

malice propense1650

mala fides1693

malice prepended1833

mens rea1861

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > spite, malice > [noun] > premeditated

purpensed malice1436

malice1454

malice prepensed1454

pretenced malice1483

malice prepense1647

malice propense1650

malice prepended1833

1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times x. 75 But O let me not sit by it, studiously to plot, or project mischiefe to any out of malice prepense.

1683 R. Dixon Canidia iii. xvi. 132 Tho there were no Malice Prepense, To aggravate so great Offence.

a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. ii. 461 Our English poets..show a kind of malice prepense in their Satires.

1753 W. Miller in Scots Mag. May 232/1 Such prepense malice.

1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xiv. 202 The benefit of clergy is taken away from murder through malice prepense.

1814 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) III. 472 Can it be supposed that deliberately & with malice prepense I could have openly insulted a body of Christians.

1862 E. M. Goulburn Thoughts Personal Relig. I. ii. ii. 229 To kill a man in wrath of malice prepense, is murder.

1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 374 He..plunges into slang, not irreverently..but of malice prepense.

1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xvi. 181 She really believed Anne had made Diana drunk out of sheer malice prepense.

1953 S. Beckett Watt iii. 191 But you did not do this on p—p—purpose, with malice prepense, said Mr Fitzwein.

1993 Guardian (Nexis) 27 Feb. 31 Was such a woman capable of malice prepense? Was it conceivable that she had been driven to it?

b. gen. Considered and planned beforehand; premeditated, deliberate.Frequently as postmodifier.

ΘΚΠ

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

1688 R. L'Estrange Brief Hist. Times II. ii. 47 So that they Suppress'd them Wilfully, and upon Prepense Purpose, and Deliberation.

1722 J. Smith Examin. Signs of Times 36 What other Reason there can be for this rude Treatment, a disagreeable Disposition of Mind, prepense Disrespect, and an uncomplaisant Behaviour; I know not.

1770 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxix. 93 From that period, whatever resolution they took was deliberate and prepense.

1816 M. Keating Trav. Eur. & Afr. I. 268 Travelling is seldom a very prepense undertaking.

1861 A. Trollope Framley Parsonage II. iv. 79 ‘Not a soul,’ he continued—not of falsehood prepense, for he was not in fact thinking of what he was saying.

1903 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 31 Oct. The slow and prepense republican work of wresting the constitution and setting up in the capital a partisan imperialism.

1985 Guardian (Nexis) 16 Apr. He has knowingly and with mischief prepense equated British political life with that of Nicaragua under the unlamented President.

2. Of a person: acting with intention or premeditation, deliberate. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > intention > [adjective]

considerate1581

conscious1829

prepense1840

intentional1863

purposive1864

1840 G. Darley Thomas à Becket iii. vi. 74 Thou'rt her chief foe, And thine own likewise!—Suicide prepense, Parricide of thy Holy Mother the Church!

1845 T. Cooper Purgatory of Suicides iii., in Poet. Wks. (1877) 87 I will be fellow to Hell's inmost self, Rather than unto thee, trickster prepense.

1879 G. MacDonald Sir Gibbie III. ix. 160 He was an orator wilful and prepense, choice of long words, fond of climaxes.

1919 W. B. Yeats If I were Four-&-twenty in Irish Statesman 23 Aug. 212/1 For he [sc. Claudel] is prepense, deliberate.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

prepensev.

Brit.

/prᵻˈpɛns/, U.S.

/priˈpɛns/

Forms: 1500s prepence, 1500s–1600s 1900s– prepense, 1600s praepense.

Origin: Probably formed within English, by back-formation. Etymon: prepensed adj.

Etymology: Probably a back-formation < prepensed adj. Compare Anglo-Norman prepenser to think about, reflect on (1300 or earlier in legal use; apparently only in past participle prepensé : see prepensed adj.), Middle French (rare) prepenser to think of in advance, to premeditate (1521 or earlier in legal use in past participle prepensee , 1532 or earlier in finite forms). Compare earlier purpense v.Frequently in later editions of 15th and early 16th cent. documents, e.g. the Paston Letters and Acts of Parl., as an editorial emendation of purpense in the original text.

rare after 17th cent.

1. transitive. To plan, devise, or contrive beforehand.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > intention > planning > plan [verb (transitive)] > think out or plan beforehand

purpense1450

prepense1509

premeditate?1526

precogitate1569

cogitate1570

predesign1630

preconsider1647

precontrive1671

preconfigure1809

predeliberate1989

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xxx. sig. Nii ^v Prepence nothynge vnto her dyshoneste.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. clxxxvi. f. ccxxxii/2 It was a thyng prepensed by false traytours, to put the realme to trouble [Fr. Cestoit vne chose faicte et proposee par traistres & pour troubler le royaulme].

1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (ii. 15) 933 It is one thing to forsake; another to propose and prepense a forsaking.

1970 Amer. Hist. Rev. 75 2129 Skolnic revives the Conspiracy Theory and impersonalizes it: not Roscoe Conkling now, but a ruthless, frightened ‘corporate America’ and a ‘determined band of corporate lawyers’ prepensed everything.

†2.

a. transitive. To weigh up or consider beforehand. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > consider, deliberate [verb (transitive)] > beforehand

forethinkc897

advise1385

ripea1475

prepense1509

premeditate?1526

forecast1534

prepend1534

precogitate1569

ruminatea1592

preponderate1599

preponder1624

study1663

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xi. sig. D. iv For to rouolue vnderstande [ed. 2, 1517: reuolue vnderstandynge] and prepence..The begynnynge and the myddle certaynly With the ende or thou put it in vre.

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xxv. sig. Mij^v All these thinges prepensed and gathered together seriously.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. xi. sig. Nn3^v Euer in your noble hart prepense, That all the sorrow in the world is lesse, Then vertues might, and values confidence.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 377 A consequent will.., whereby (all circumstances prepensed) God doth simply will this, or that particular event, as simply good to be.

b. intransitive. To meditate beforehand. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > contemplation or meditation > contemplate [verb (intransitive)] > beforehand

prepense1531

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xxiv. sig. gvi^v His [sc. the soul's] office is, before that any thynge is attempted, to thinke, consydre, and prepence.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.1847

adj.1647

v.1509

单词	prepense
释义	prepensen. Brit. /prᵻˈpɛns/, U.S. /priˈpɛns/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: prepense adj. Etymology: < prepense adj. Compare earlier prepensity n. Now rare. Forethought, intention, design. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > [noun] > consideration beforehand forethoughta1400 premeditationc1450 precogitation1596 precogitancy?a1645 prepense1847 1847 R. Gilfillan in Tait's Edinb. Mag. 14 362 Her poetry is not, of prepense and purpose, the express image of her religious thought. 1875 Harper's Mag. Nov. 860/1 Humor is often unintentional; that is, it causes fun in the collective body without prepense on the part of the occupant of the floor. 1947 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 37 470/1 A distinction between murder..and manslaughter—the killing without prepense—is unknown to these Indians. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). prepenseadj. Brit. /prᵻˈpɛns/, U.S. /priˈpɛns/ Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item; originally modelled on a French lexical item. Etymon: prepensed adj. Etymology: Alteration of prepensed adj., originally after Anglo-Norman prepensé (see prepensed adj.). Compare earlier prepense v., purpensed adj. 1. a. malice prepense n. (also prepense malice) malice aforethought; wrong or injury purposely done.One of several renderings of the Anglo-Norman legal phrase malice purpensée or malice prepensée (see malice n. 2); now chiefly in extended use. Cf. malice prepensed n. at prepensed adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [adjective] > performed with intention bethoughtc1200 expressa1400 wilfula1400 purposedc1422 purpensed1436 malice prepensed1454 aforethought1472 studiedc1475 setc1485 voluntary1495 deliberate?1527 willing1550 witting1553 propensed1560 fore-intendeda1586 affected1586 designed1586 determinate1586 intended1592 deliberated1594 uncasual1614 recollecteda1616 resolved1624 industriousa1628 intentionate1631 pre-intended1636 advised1642 malice prepense1647 sedentary1647 propense1650 consultive1651 (crime, evil, etc.) of forethought1692 conscious1726 intentionala1729 systematic1746 studious1750 systematical1750 prepensive1752 advertent1832 self-conscious1832 volitive1839 designful1852 purposeful1853 purposive1864 thought-controlled1926 the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > spitefulness > feeling of spite > [noun] > premeditated malice prepensed1454 pretenced malice1483 malice prepense1647 society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > criminal intent purpensed malice1436 malice1454 malice prepensed1454 pretenced malice1483 scienter1618 malice prepense1647 malice propense1650 mala fides1693 malice prepended1833 mens rea1861 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > spite, malice > [noun] > premeditated purpensed malice1436 malice1454 malice prepensed1454 pretenced malice1483 malice prepense1647 malice propense1650 malice prepended1833 1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times x. 75 But O let me not sit by it, studiously to plot, or project mischiefe to any out of malice prepense. 1683 R. Dixon Canidia iii. xvi. 132 Tho there were no Malice Prepense, To aggravate so great Offence. a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. ii. 461 Our English poets..show a kind of malice prepense in their Satires. 1753 W. Miller in Scots Mag. May 232/1 Such prepense malice. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xiv. 202 The benefit of clergy is taken away from murder through malice prepense. 1814 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) III. 472 Can it be supposed that deliberately & with malice prepense I could have openly insulted a body of Christians. 1862 E. M. Goulburn Thoughts Personal Relig. I. ii. ii. 229 To kill a man in wrath of malice prepense, is murder. 1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 374 He..plunges into slang, not irreverently..but of malice prepense. 1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xvi. 181 She really believed Anne had made Diana drunk out of sheer malice prepense. 1953 S. Beckett Watt iii. 191 But you did not do this on p—p—purpose, with malice prepense, said Mr Fitzwein. 1993 Guardian (Nexis) 27 Feb. 31 Was such a woman capable of malice prepense? Was it conceivable that she had been driven to it? b. gen. Considered and planned beforehand; premeditated, deliberate.Frequently as postmodifier. ΘΚΠ 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 1688 R. L'Estrange Brief Hist. Times II. ii. 47 So that they Suppress'd them Wilfully, and upon Prepense Purpose, and Deliberation. 1722 J. Smith Examin. Signs of Times 36 What other Reason there can be for this rude Treatment, a disagreeable Disposition of Mind, prepense Disrespect, and an uncomplaisant Behaviour; I know not. 1770 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxix. 93 From that period, whatever resolution they took was deliberate and prepense. 1816 M. Keating Trav. Eur. & Afr. I. 268 Travelling is seldom a very prepense undertaking. 1861 A. Trollope Framley Parsonage II. iv. 79 ‘Not a soul,’ he continued—not of falsehood prepense, for he was not in fact thinking of what he was saying. 1903 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 31 Oct. The slow and prepense republican work of wresting the constitution and setting up in the capital a partisan imperialism. 1985 Guardian (Nexis) 16 Apr. He has knowingly and with mischief prepense equated British political life with that of Nicaragua under the unlamented President. 2. Of a person: acting with intention or premeditation, deliberate. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [adjective] considerate1581 conscious1829 prepense1840 intentional1863 purposive1864 1840 G. Darley Thomas à Becket iii. vi. 74 Thou'rt her chief foe, And thine own likewise!—Suicide prepense, Parricide of thy Holy Mother the Church! 1845 T. Cooper Purgatory of Suicides iii., in Poet. Wks. (1877) 87 I will be fellow to Hell's inmost self, Rather than unto thee, trickster prepense. 1879 G. MacDonald Sir Gibbie III. ix. 160 He was an orator wilful and prepense, choice of long words, fond of climaxes. 1919 W. B. Yeats If I were Four-&-twenty in Irish Statesman 23 Aug. 212/1 For he [sc. Claudel] is prepense, deliberate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). prepensev. Brit. /prᵻˈpɛns/, U.S. /priˈpɛns/ Forms: 1500s prepence, 1500s–1600s 1900s– prepense, 1600s praepense. Origin: Probably formed within English, by back-formation. Etymon: prepensed adj. Etymology: Probably a back-formation < prepensed adj. Compare Anglo-Norman prepenser to think about, reflect on (1300 or earlier in legal use; apparently only in past participle prepensé : see prepensed adj.), Middle French (rare) prepenser to think of in advance, to premeditate (1521 or earlier in legal use in past participle prepensee , 1532 or earlier in finite forms). Compare earlier purpense v.Frequently in later editions of 15th and early 16th cent. documents, e.g. the Paston Letters and Acts of Parl., as an editorial emendation of purpense in the original text. rare after 17th cent. 1. transitive. To plan, devise, or contrive beforehand. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > plan [verb (transitive)] > think out or plan beforehand purpense1450 prepense1509 premeditate?1526 precogitate1569 cogitate1570 predesign1630 preconsider1647 precontrive1671 preconfigure1809 predeliberate1989 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xxx. sig. Nii ^v Prepence nothynge vnto her dyshoneste. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. clxxxvi. f. ccxxxii/2 It was a thyng prepensed by false traytours, to put the realme to trouble [Fr. Cestoit vne chose faicte et proposee par traistres & pour troubler le royaulme]. 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (ii. 15) 933 It is one thing to forsake; another to propose and prepense a forsaking. 1970 Amer. Hist. Rev. 75 2129 Skolnic revives the Conspiracy Theory and impersonalizes it: not Roscoe Conkling now, but a ruthless, frightened ‘corporate America’ and a ‘determined band of corporate lawyers’ prepensed everything. †2. a. transitive. To weigh up or consider beforehand. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > consider, deliberate [verb (transitive)] > beforehand forethinkc897 advise1385 ripea1475 prepense1509 premeditate?1526 forecast1534 prepend1534 precogitate1569 ruminatea1592 preponderate1599 preponder1624 study1663 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xi. sig. D. iv For to rouolue vnderstande [ed. 2, 1517: reuolue vnderstandynge] and prepence..The begynnynge and the myddle certaynly With the ende or thou put it in vre. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xxv. sig. Mij^v All these thinges prepensed and gathered together seriously. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. xi. sig. Nn3^v Euer in your noble hart prepense, That all the sorrow in the world is lesse, Then vertues might, and values confidence. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 377 A consequent will.., whereby (all circumstances prepensed) God doth simply will this, or that particular event, as simply good to be. b. intransitive. To meditate beforehand. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > contemplation or meditation > contemplate [verb (intransitive)] > beforehand prepense1531 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xxiv. sig. gvi^v His [sc. the soul's] office is, before that any thynge is attempted, to thinke, consydre, and prepence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1847adj.1647v.1509
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