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prepense

[ pri-pens ]

adjective

  1. planned or intended in advance; premeditated.


prepense

/ ɪˈɛԲ /

adjective

  1. postpositive (usually in legal contexts) arranged in advance; premeditated (esp in the phrase malice prepense )
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of prepense1

1695–1705; pre- + -pense < Latin ŧԲܲ, past participle of pendere to weigh, consider; pensive
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of prepense1

C18: from Anglo-Norman ܰԲé, from Old French purpenser to consider in advance, from penser to think, from Latin ŧԲ to weigh, consider
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Could them get help from so-called the US activist group China Aid without any prepense selection?!

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He did, it is true, occasionally chafe against some susceptible spot or other of those around him, but there was no malice prepense in it, any more than there is intentional offence in the passage of a strong man through a crowd; so he elbowed his way, and pushed on in conversation, never so much as suspecting that he jostled any one in his path.

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Not at once, I confess—not off-hand, and with such malice prepense as the others—for Nicodemus Handy had a soul above such black ingratitude—but after a pause, and, let the truth be told in extenuation, because he could not help it.

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Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder.

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The whole development of the substantive law as to murder rests on judicial rulings as to the meaning of malice prepense coupled with the extrajudicial commentaries of Coke, Hale and Foster; for parliament, though often tempted by bills and codes, has never ventured on a legislative definition.

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