prepense

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To weigh or consider beforehand; to consider

submit you to high prouidence, / And euer in your noble hart prepense, / That all the sorrow in the world is lesse, / Then vertues might .

To deliberate beforehand
Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated
{a} preconceived, contrived beforehand
To weigh or consider beforehand; to premeditate
Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; usually placed after the word it qualifies; as, malice prepense
{s} deliberate, performed with forethought; premeditated, planned in advance
malice prepense
Malice aforethought
prepensely
In a premeditated manner
prepense

    Hyphenation

    pre·pense

    Pronunciation

    Etymology

    () Back-formation from prepensed, probably from Anglo-Norman prepenser.
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