Pre-pënse'1, a.
a. [See infra.] Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; premeditated; aforethought; — usually placed after the word it qualifies.
This has not arisen from any misrepresentation or error prepense. Southey.
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a. [See infra.] Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; premeditated; aforethought; — usually placed after the word it qualifies.
This has not arisen from any misrepresentation or error prepense. Southey.
v. t. [Lat. præ, before, and pendere, pensum, to weigh, to consider.] To weigh or consider beforehand. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.
To deliberate beforehand. [Obs.]