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premeditate en · VERB

Pronunciation

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• /priːˈmɛdɪteɪt/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin praemeditātus, past participle of praemeditor (“to premeditate”). By surface analysis, pre- + meditate.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To meditate, consider, or plan beforehand; to think about and revolve in the mind beforehand.
   • [I]ndeed I began ſincerely to hate my ſelf for a Dog, a VVretch that had been a Thief, and a Murtherer; […] I vvent about vvith my Heart full of theſe Thoughts, little better than a diſtracted Fellovv; in ſhort, running headlong into the dreadfulleſt Deſpair, and premeditated nothing but hovv to rid my ſelf out of the VVorld; […] nothing lay upon my Mind for ſeveral Days, but to ſhoot my ſelf into the Head vvith my Piſtol. 1720, [Daniel Defoe], The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton, London: […] J[ohn] Brotherton, […], J[ohn] Graves […], A[nne] Dodd, […], and T[homas] Warner, […], →OCLC, page 331:

Forms

Deriveds

premeditator · premeditatingly · unpremeditable · premeditately

Relateds

deliberate · premeditated · premeditation · premeditating

Translations (11)

pl zaplanować naprzód (to meditate, consider, or plan beforehand) · pl planować naprzód (to meditate, consider, or plan beforehand) · bg обмислям предварително (to meditate, consider, or plan beforehand) · de vorsätzlich planen (to meditate, consider, or plan beforehand) · de vorher bedenken (to meditate, consider, or plan beforehand) · de vorher überlegen (to meditate, consider, or plan beforehand) · de im Vorhinein planen (to meditate, consider, or plan beforehand) · pl obmyślić z góry (to meditate, consider, or plan beforehand) · pl obmyślać z góry (to meditate, consider, or plan beforehand) · nl van tevoren bedenken (to meditate, consider, or plan beforehand) · de im Vorhinein überlegen (to meditate, consider, or plan beforehand)