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单词 purpense
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purpensev.

Forms: late Middle English–1500s purpense, 1500s pourpense.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French purpenser, pourpenser.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman purpenser and Middle French pourpenser (French †pourpenser ) to deliberate upon (end of the 11th cent. in Old French as porpenser , originally used reflexively), to think (a plan) up, to plot (early 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), to decide on (a course of action) (c1200 in Anglo-Norman), to premeditate (mid 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman in past participle purpensé , frequently in legal use: see purpensed adj.) < por- , pur- , pour- pur- prefix + penser to think (see pense v.2). Compare later prepense v.
Obsolete.
transitive. To deliberate upon; to determine beforehand; to premeditate. Also intransitive. Cf. prepense v.Also with clause as object.
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the mind > will > intention > planning > plan [verb (transitive)] > think out or plan beforehand
purpense1450
prepense1509
premeditate?1526
precogitate1569
cogitate1570
predesign1630
preconsider1647
precontrive1671
preconfigure1809
predeliberate1989
1450 Rolls of Parl. V. 177/2 The seid Duke..of full longe tyme purpensyng [in Paston Lett. I. 100 printed prepensing], that your said grete Ennemye and Adversarie Charles, shuld conquere..youre seid Reame of Fraunce..counseilled..your Highnes to enlarge and delyver oute of prison the same Duke of Orliaunce.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 2214 A Cachepoll..so was he ful ensensid How he hym wold engyne, as he had purpensid.
1496 Act 12 Hen. VII c. 7 James Grame..wilfully assentid and purpensed the murdre of oon Richard Tracy Gentilman, then his maister.
1512 Helyas in W. J. Thoms Coll. Early Prose Romances (1828) III. 27 The said iniury (bi her commised and purpensed).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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