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Webster 1913 Edition
Prepense
Pre-pense′
,Verb.
T.
To weigh or consider beforehand; to premeditate.
[Obs.]
Spenser. Sir T. Elyot.
Pre-pense′
,Verb.
I.
To deliberate beforehand.
[Obs.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Prepense
PREPENSE
,Adj.
Preconceived; premeditated; aforethought.
Malice prepense is necessary to constitute murder.
PREPENSE
,Verb.
T.
To weigh or consider beforehand. [Not used.]
PREPENSE
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
prepense
prepense
English
Adjective
prepense (comparative more prepense, superlative most prepense)
- Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated.
See also
Verb
prepense (third-person singular simple present prepenses, present participle prepensing, simple past and past participle prepensed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To weigh or consider beforehand; to consider.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xi:
- submit you to high prouidence, / And euer in your noble hart prepense, / That all the sorrow in the world is lesse, / Then vertues might [...].
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir T. Elyot to this entry?)
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xi:
- (intransitive) To deliberate beforehand.