Prepense

[pri'pens]

Definition

(v. t.) To weigh or consider beforehand; to premeditate.

(v. i.) To deliberate beforehand.

(v. t.) Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; -- usually placed after the word it qualifies; as, malice prepense.

Edited by Elise

Definition

adj. premeditated: intentional chiefly in the phrase 'malice prepense'=malice aforethought or intentional—(obs.) Prepen′sive.—v.t. (Spens.) to consider or deliberate beforehand.—adv. Prepense′ly intentionally.

Editor: Olaf