premeditated
adjective /ˌpriːˈmedɪteɪtɪd/
/ˌpriːˈmedɪteɪtɪd/
- (of a crime or bad action) planned in advance
- The killing had not been premeditated.
- This was a callous, premeditated attack on a defenceless young man.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPremeditated is used with these nouns:- murder
Word Originmid 16th cent. (earlier (late Middle English) as premeditation): from Latin praemeditat- ‘thought out before’, from the verb praemeditari, from prae ‘before’ + meditari ‘meditate’ + -ed.