Prepense

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

  Prepense \Pre*pense"\, v. t. [Pref. pre + F. penser to think.
     See {Pansy}.]
     To weigh or consider beforehand; to premeditate. [Obs.]
     --Spenser. Sir T. Elyot.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prepense \Pre*pense"\, v. i.
     To deliberate beforehand. [Obs.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prepense \Pre*pense"\, a. [See {Pansy}, and cf. {Prepense}, v.
     t.]
     Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived;
     premeditated; aforethought; -- usually placed after the word
     it qualifies; as, malice prepense.
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           This has not arisen from any misrepresentation or error
           prepense.                                --Southey.
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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PREPENSE. The same as aforethought. (q.v.) Vide 2 Chit. Cr. Law, *784.