prepense

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/pɹɪˈpɛns/

adjective

Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated.

OriginAnglo-Norman prepenser →
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Meanings

adjective
  1. Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated.
verbprepense (third-person singular simple present prepenses, present participle prepensing, simple past and past participle prepensed)

present singular third person prepenses · participle present prepensing · participle past prepensed · past prepensed

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo weigh or consider beforehand; to intend.

    All these thinges prepensed and gathered together seriously

    1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC
    1 more example

    submit you to high prouidence, / And euer in your noble hart prepense, / That all the sorrow in the world is lesse, / Then vertues might [...].

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. obsoleteTo deliberate beforehand.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
premeditated

Origin

  1. Anglo-Normanprepenser
  2. Englishprepense

Back-formation from prepensed, probably from Anglo-Norman prepenser.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with prepense

sensedefenseexpensehencedefenceoffenseintensefencedensesuspensecommenceimmensetensethencewhencespencepencedispensecondenserecompensepretencereminiscencecensecompense
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