prepense
Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated.
Adjective
- Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated.
Origin
Back-formation from prepensed, probably from Anglo-Norman prepenser.
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Verb
- To weigh or consider beforehand; to intend.
- All these thinges prepensed and gathered together seriously - 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:
- submit you to high prouidence, / And euer in your noble hart prepense, / That all the sorrow in the world is lesse, / Then vertues might [...]. - 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […],...
- To deliberate beforehand.