premeditate

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/priːˈmɛdɪteɪt/

verb

To meditate, consider, or plan beforehand; to think about and revolve in the mind beforehand.

OriginLatin praemeditātus →
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Meanings

verbpremeditate (third-person singular simple present premeditates, present participle premeditating, simple past and past participle premeditated)

present singular third person premeditates · participle present premeditating · participle past premeditated · past premeditated

  1. ambitransitiveTo meditate, consider, or plan beforehand; to think about and revolve in the mind beforehand.
    1 more example

    [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

Origin

  1. Latinpraemeditātus
  2. Englishpremeditate

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

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Translations

Bulgarian обмислям предварително
  • обмислям предварително (obmisljam predvaritelno)to meditate, consider, or plan beforehand
Dutch van tevoren bedenken
  • van tevoren bedenkento meditate, consider, or plan beforehand
German vorsätzlich planen, vorher überlegen
  • vorsätzlich planento meditate, consider, or plan beforehand
  • vorher überlegento meditate, consider, or plan beforehand
  • im Vorhinein planento meditate, consider, or plan beforehand
  • im Vorhinein überlegento meditate, consider, or plan beforehand
  • vorher bedenkento meditate, consider, or plan beforehand
Polish obmyślać z góry, obmyślić z góry
  • obmyślać z góryto meditate, consider, or plan beforehand
  • obmyślić z góryto meditate, consider, or plan beforehand
  • planować naprzódto meditate, consider, or plan beforehand
  • zaplanować naprzódto meditate, consider, or plan beforehand
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Chicago

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