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Premeditate   /primˈɛdətˌeɪt/   Listen
Premeditate

verb
(past & past part. premeditated; pres. part. premeditating)
1.
Consider, ponder, or plan (an action) beforehand.
2.
Think or reflect beforehand or in advance.





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"Premeditate" Quotes from Famous Books



... carry an excuse to Huntingtower, to prevent pursuit; and then he put a letter into my hand, which, he said, he brought from Sir William Wallace. Anxious to know the purpose of this act, and believing that a man who had sworn to me devoted love could not premeditate a more serious outrage, I broke the seal and, nearly as I can recollect, ...
— The Scottish Chiefs • Miss Jane Porter
... indeed to the capacity of children. Another is a lack I find in the exercises used in the universities, which do make too great a divorce between invention and memory. For their speeches are either premeditate, in verbis conceptis, where nothing is left to invention, or merely extemporal, where little is left to memory; whereas in life and action there is least use of either of these, but rather of intermixtures ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various


Words linked to "Premeditate" :   meditate, moot, premeditation, contemplate, ruminate, mull, debate, consider, turn over, reflect, mull over, ponder, chew over, muse, think over, speculate, deliberate, excogitate


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