Premeditated

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Premeditate \Pre*med"i*tate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Premeditated}
     (-t[=a]`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Premeditating}.] [L.
     praemeditatus, p. p. of praemeditari; prae before + meditari
     to meditate. See {Meditate}.]
     To think on, and revolve in the mind, beforehand; to contrive
     and design previously; as, to premeditate robbery.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           With words premeditated thus he said.    --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  premeditated
       adj : characterized by deliberate purpose and some degree of
             planning; "a premeditated crime" [ant: {unpremeditated}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "premeditated":
     advised, aforethought, calculated, conscious, considered,
     contrived, cooked-up, cut out, cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry,
     deliberate, designed, fixed, in the bag, intended, intentional,
     on ice, packed, planned, plotted, prearranged, preconceived,
     preconcerted, preconsidered, precontrived, predeliberated,
     predetermined, preordered, prepense, preresolved, purposive,
     put-up, rigged, schemed, set-up, stacked, studied, studious,
     thought-out